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42 <br /> Slide #30 <br /> Capacity Ta keaway <br /> Utilities Staff Concerns in Priority <br /> Order <br /> 1. Collection system <br /> 2. Distribution system <br /> 3. Nutrient wastewater limits <br /> 4. Water treatment process <br /> limits ' <br /> 5. Water storage/fire protection <br /> u PPIY WTP IDn COLL WWIP <br /> 6. Water supply <br /> Bryant Green said this slide summarizes the barriers the town is balancing and shows the <br /> order of priority in which they are trying to address them. He said the pump station mentioned <br /> earlier that was going to be addressed before the BRICK funding was rescinded is part of the <br /> collection system, which is the top priority right now. The second priority is the distribution system, <br /> which encompasses the water quality issues as well as the quantity of water and maintaining <br /> adequate fire flow. <br /> Matt Efird reiterated that there are issues with the system that takes the water from the <br /> water treatment plant and provides it to homes, and the town has invested a lot of capital money <br /> in that area. He said there is a big problem with the system that takes the sewage from the homes <br /> to the water treatment plant, and that's where most of the system capacity restraints are. To <br /> summarize, he said it's less of a system treatment capacity issue but more of the constraints <br /> between the existing system and homes and moving that sewage to the plants. As a result, there <br /> are a lot of planned upgrades to serve development, things like outfalls and the pump stations <br /> that move the sewage around wastewater. <br /> Chair Bedford asked what outfall is. <br /> Matt Efird said it's a collection of smaller pipes that move water to a bigger pipe and out. <br />