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The Altoona Water Authority recently bought equipment needed to begin a five-year regimen of testing for bacteria downstream from its Combined Sewer Overflows, to determine what effects the CSOs have on streams.
That could help determine whether environmental agencies eventually begin to pressure the city to eliminate its combined storm-and-sanitary sewer system serving the central area of the city work that years ago was estimated could cost $75 million.
“We hope to have (the equipment) installed and running this spring,” Mark Glenn, president of Gwin Dobson & Foreman, the authority’s consulting engineer, said at a recent meeting.
There will be 20 sampling sites 11 along Mill Run and the Beaverdam and Frankstown branches of the Juniata River downstream from the CSO at Tuckahoe Park and nine along the Little Juniata River downstream from the CSO near East Sixth Avenue and Kettle Street, according to a map provided at the meeting.
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The Altoona Water Authority expects to start $30.8 million worth of work at the Bellwood reservoir in October or November, after years of delays.
Consulting engineer Gwin Dobson & Foreman is updating specifications and plans for the $20.9 million renovation of the dam and the $9.9 million renovation of the water treatment plant and has tentatively set up bid advertisements in July for the dam and in August for the plant, company President Mark Glenn told the board Thursday.
The authority will pay for the projects with $30.9 million that Pennvest awarded in January, several weeks after the Department of Environmental Protection had issued a permit for the dam and five months after it had issued a permit for the plant.
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