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Manteca sewerroject now at $ 14. 5 million p i By CLAUDIA LOVIG environmental concerns. fluent into the river,Manteca has City Council members initiated Bulletin Staff Gary Reents, area engineer for to substantially improve its treat- a building moratorium a month The state's requirement that the Regional Water Quality Con- ment methods when it expands ago in response to state officials' $a,hwn Manteca dumptreated effluent in- trot Board, said the slough has environmental concerns at the ci- PouticRR � - the facility. Interstote5 Yosemite Avenue Jl to the San Joaquin River will add long been used as a fishery. "Right now,we couldn't put the ty's sewage treatment plant. up to$2.5 million to the cost of ex- Discharging more water in the quality of effluent we have into The plant is operating at near panding the city's sewage treat- area would disrupt the habitat, Hovdand Road 1 P the river," Public Works Director capacity while land used to �-.i` ment plant. particularly since there is no Michael Brinton said. dispose of treated effluent is f Project engineer James Gossett measurable current three to four Manteca can manage with saturated, stopping normal per- said the new discharge require- months out of the year. near-capacity flows at its colation. City officials have leas ment will be partially funded by Sending the discharge farther wastewater facility only because ed an additional 80 acres of land to ao Highway 120 the state which approved the south means the city will have to it uses percolation disposal ease percolation problems. — WASTEWATERR�QUALITY change Friday. construct a 2.5-mile outfall line methods. As the level of flows are Reents is reviewing the city's CONTROL FACILITIES Federal and state dollars which will bring the cost of the ex- increased, the plant's capabilities interim actions to control growth, Western Pacific RR received through the Clean Water pansion project to nearly $14.5 for treating effluent are reduced, including a proposal that would , Act will pay for a majority of the million. he said. restrict development over the outfall Zine project. The remainder will be Gossett said he prefers The state's decision gives city next two years based on covered by the $3.25 million in discharging treated effluent officials the go-ahead for engineers' estimates of remain- sewer revenue bonds the city has through the outfall line. Manteca soliciting construction bids for the ing plant capacity. \\\' McKinley Avenue San Joaquin River issued to finance its share of the won't be saddled with as many ,project. Separate bids will be "It's more than just good faith. project. state-imposed restrictions and its received for the plant itself, the It's going to be effective," Reents Woodward Rood "I don't at this time foresee a chances of receiving grants for outfall line and another line con- said of the city's actions. funding problem," Gossett said of future plant expansions will be netting the neighboring Lathrop If state officials agree that the financing the engineering change. improved, he said. community to the plant. plant can handle additional This graphic illustrates the tentative direction of an City officials initially wanted to The city's plant, built in the Brinton will ask the City Coun- capacity without creating signifi- outfall line that will discharge Manteca's treated ef- discharge treated effluent into the 1970s, provides minimal treat- cil Monday to authorize Gossett to cant environmental problems, rom its sewage treatment plant to the San French Camp Slough,but state of- ment of effluent which is disposed design the outfall line. Construc- Reents said Manteca will pro- boa Fluent ui ff River. ficials wanted the discharge of through irrigation and percola- tion bids for the three phases will bably be allowed to resume q released downstream because of tion methods. To discharge ef- be opened June 12. building.