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Boxelder expands to serve customers

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Times are changing, and you have to adapt and change to keep up. It’s the same story for Boxelder Sanitation District (BSD). In order to ensure that your wastewater needs are met in an efficient affordable manner, we have to stay ahead of the changes our community is experiencing.

 

BSD is in the process of expanding its current wastewater treatment plant to meet the growing demand for wastewater treatment as well as changing regulations. With increasingly stringent limitations adopted by the State of Colorado, BSD completed a new treatment facility in 2013.

While this facility continues to perform well, in order to maintain compliance and meet new regulations, a second expansion is required. Construction on the expansion is currently underway and is slated for completion in summer 2021.

The new facility will include:

  • Expanded influent screening, grit removal and pumping
  • New anaerobic selector basin and oxidation ditches for biological nutrient removal
  • New final clarifiers
  • New anaerobic selector digesters
  • New solids handling process facility
  • Expanded and upgraded UV system
  • New wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) operation building

These upgrades and additions are expected to increase operational efficiencies, meet future regulatory demands and accommodate future growth.

Funding for the project

You may wonder who is footing the bill for all of this. Rest easy, growth pays its own way here – there are no new fees to customers.

This expansion is financed by the Colorado Water Resources and Power Development Authority (CWRPDA) State Revolving Fund. The CWRPDA is administered by the Colorado Department of Health and Environment (CDPHE) with joint funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the State of Colorado.

Project cost breakdown:

  • WWTP construction – $35 million
  • Project loan – $29 million, 30-year, 1.8 percent interest
  • District funds – $6 million from capital revenues from new development
  • Future loan payment support by new development Plant Investment Fee Revenue

What not to flush

We have come a long way from the lagoon system that we started with in 1965, however, as times change so must BSD to ensure that your wastewater needs are met. Help us take care of this new facility by only flushing the three “P’s” down the toilet – pee, poop and toilet paper. Everything else should go in the garbage:

  • Flushable wipes
  • Paper towels
  • Hygiene products
  • Old medication/pills
  • Diapers
  • Dental floss
  • Q-tips/cotton balls
  • Dead goldfish
  • Fats, oils & grease
  • Cigarette butts
  • Hair
  • Gum

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