The Septage Treatment Facility at the City’s WWTP will close effective Tuesday, September 1, 2009.
The City has operated a Septage Treatment Facility at the WWTP for almost 30 years, under an agreement with Wicomico County. Now, for a variety of reasons, it is no longer feasible or financially beneficial for the City to keep the Septage Treatment Facility open.
In order for septage disposal fees to be set high enough to offset the operating costs of the facility, the fee would be prohibitive for septage haulers. Also, now that the City’s WWTP has been upgraded from a secondary treatment facility to provide for enhanced nutrient removal with very tight permit limits from the Maryland Department of the Environment, it is no longer acceptable for the City to introduce septage to the treatment process.
Septage Tank Pumping Service Companies holding outstanding tipping fee tickets should contact the following to receive a refund:
City Internal Services - Finance Department
125 N. Division Street, Room 103
Salisbury, Maryland 21801
Hours: Monday – 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday thru Friday - 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
410-548-3110
For additional information contact, John Pick, City Administrator, at 410-548-3100, or Chip Messick, Acting Director of Public Works, at 410-548-3170.
Where will that septage go now?
ReplyDeleteSewer manholes on some back road creating a slug of influent that the plant can't handle.
Maybe Ray Lewis can help. His he still in jail? Mike Lewis Great / Ray Lewis loser.
ReplyDeleteanonymous 12:14, No relations, seriously, no sh!t. LOL
ReplyDelete12:14 - more likely, storm drains that lead to the Wicomico, Pocomoke, Nanticoke and Manokin rivers, then on to the bay.
ReplyDeleteThey have to honor the contracts for the tickets they have sold.
ReplyDeleteActually, they can cancel those tickets and not honor them. The bigger problem is where will the septage go? How did the State allow this to happen in a rural county?? Septage is no different, except in concentration, than the normal sewage that goes to the plant. Something doesn't smell right.......
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