CASE STUDIES
Close to the edge. The wastewater treatment plant at Heritage Lake Indiana.
chain’s planning, but it has all worked out very favourably in terms of our investment, rather than have to buy in everything new.”
He added: “We benefitted from grants during COVID, but for a very small town like ours to pay for the rest without having to borrow any money must be quite rare these days. Our Board does an excellent job managing Clear Creek Conservancy District, and taking care of the budget, especially our Financial Manager, Kathy Deer, who started here roughly when I did 34 years ago. Every month we have a meeting in which everything to do with the wastewater facility is included. We’ve always been very open. When we received our communication from IDEM that we were on an early sewer ban, it was raised at our very next meeting and immediately went into our Heritage Highlights newspaper so that everyone could see what was going on to be aware of possible changes.”
Quality continuity at Heritage Lake continued with Curry & Associates (now
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part of Fleis & Vandenbrink Engineering) again appointed to design the extended plant, with Lori Young (President) leading the way. It was her father, Robert, who designed the original first main treatment plant over 30 years ago.
‘A very clean and exceptionally well-run facility’
“We looked at several options,” said Lori, “but knew that CCCD had been very happy with the Lakeside rotors, headworks screen and clarifiers that they’d had for a very long time, so we met with FACO’s Ken Sobbe to assess the equipment.”
She added: “Gaining extra years of useful life from a significant amount of equipment that is already 30 years old speaks volumes for its quality, especially in a wastewater environment. And now that stainless steel is in use for the new/ refurbished equipment, it will have a much-prolonged life. It will also benefit from the very dedicated management of this plant, which considering its age,
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is a very clean and exceptionally well- run facility. We’ve all worked well together not to be shortsighted; wanting to keep reliable equipment in place where possible but be realistic and not leave anything to chance. This means that we can be confident of another 20-years-plus service horizon.”
‘Structures had to be built within twenty feet of the water’
Who knows, but even the bald eagles that frequent Heritage Lake might have looked down and thought that the replacement of some equipment and refurbishment of other equipment would make this a challenge for the contractor, Patterson Horth. No contractor wants to lose valuable time on site, so the unknowns of waiting to see what could be kept – whilst trying to balance up the supply of replacement parts was not the easiest plan to make during a 10-month period.
Jim Alsatt, Vice President of Patterson Horth commented: “The plant is built on a very small peninsula out in the lake
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