Mayor Jamie Mayo and the Monroe City Council are pleased to join our Engineering Department to announce a groundbreaking ceremony to be held at 9 am Thursday, July 20, 2017 at the City of Monroe Water Pollution Control Center (WPCC), located at 770 Richwood Road No.
2, Monroe, LA, 71202.
The project is a $3.3M Sludge Digester cover system.
This sludge digester cover system is not a photogenic project – so people won’t be talking about how great it looks.
This will help our system run more smoothly and keep the local community smelling pleasant.” Project Information is listed below: Contractor – Womack & Sons Construction Group, Inc. Harrisonburg, LA Engineer – Arcadis Engineering with local sub-consultant Denmon Engineering Contract Amount – $3,383,690.00 Notice to Proceed issued May 1, 2017 Contract Time – 350 calendar days Funding Source – DEQ Loan Funds and EPA-SAAP Grant Installation of Cover Systems for Sludge Digesters No.
2 at WPCC – this project involves the replacement of the sludge digester cover system at the City’s Water Pollution Control Center (WPCC).
The sludge digester roof system captures excessive amounts of fugitive biogas before it enters the atmosphere.
The biogas is used to fuel the onsite heaters and heat exchangers.
This wastewater construction project will be beneficial to the City of Monroe.
The EPA funding will be match with funds from the LA Department of Environmental Quality’s State Revolving Loan Fund and the City of Monroe’s Capital Infrastructure Sales Tax Revenue.