Work is 62 days ahead of schedule on the city of Hays’ $28.4 million renovation of its wastewater treatment plant at 1498 E. U.S. Highway 40 Bypass, “which is excellent,” said Jeff Crispin, director of water resources.
“We have roughly 388 days to go,” Crispin said Wednesday. Contractors got the go-ahead to start on May 31, 2017, and completion is set for July 15, 2019.
Most of the concrete work and installation of pipe in the ground was completed before Hays was hit with heavy rains in April and May, which was fortunate, Crispin said. As a result, the joint partnership of CAS Constructors and Burns & McDonnell will be able to work through the winter primarily inside.
“This November-December there will be some substantial changes,” he said.
At that time, the city’s wastewater from an existing influent pump station into a headworks facility will instead flow into two new replacement structures. Residents who want to watch the construction progress can see it in four-hour segments from a live stream video camera at http://www.haysusa.com/html/wastewaterremodel.html.
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