Work on reuse system near completion

Royal American the licensed general contractor out of Panama City, awarded the contract to install the city’s $8 million dollar wastewater reuse system is near completion.

Construction crews are in the final stages of installing an upland spray field west of town and connecting throughout town an irrigation system to city and county land, parks and open spaces.

The project included building a 300,000 gallon storage tank (pictured above), a pump station as well as installing a series of pipe and irrigation that will allow the city to control the system via computer.

The city tapped into the Obama Administration’s federal stimulus monies to fund the project.

The system is designed to take wastewater received at the treatment plant, treat it in accordance with state standards and reuse the treated water or effluent on public lands and eventually in residential areas.

For years now and at present the State has permitted the city to release the effluent into Huckleberry Creek.  However, once construction on the system is concluded, the need to discharge into the Creek will be eliminated.