CORNWALL — Amid the winter storm and power outages throughout Cornwall, the town’s Wastewater Management Project Construction Committee met on March 14 to discuss recent updates. Project Engineer Steve McDowell and First Selectman Gordon Ridgway briefly addressed those able to connect on Zoom.
McDowell informed the committee that the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) declined to conduct the required environmental review on the proposed site of the wastewater treatment center in West Cornwall. HUD instead referred the committee to consultants that are able to complete environmental reviews.
“The next step is to get a proposal in to authorize them to proceed and get this project moving,” said McDowell.
The committee has reached out to Eagle Environmental in Terryville and is awaiting its proposal for the project. McDowell said he has worked with Eagle Environmental in the past and “they can get the job done within about a two-month period.”
Once a proposal is received and approved by HUD, the environmental review can begin. McDowell said they do not currently have a cost estimate, but they “don’t anticipate it being very high.”
“We’re sort of on hold until we get this locked in,” said Ridgway.
The committee agreed to reconvene at a time when more members are back in power following the snow storm and able to connect.
“What we’ll do is give the committee a report of those two points and reschedule after we dig out,” said Ridgway.
