Audrey Caro
Sweet Home’s 70-year-old wastewater treatment plant, despite upgrades in 1974 and 1994, is outdated and continues to, on occasion, leave the city out of compliance with Department of Environmental Quality regulations.
That wasn’t news to the City Council Thursday, Aug. 31, but councilors got an earful of the plant’s deficiencies in a report from staff during a work session focusing on the city’s wastewater.
The city contracts with CH2M Hill to operate the…