The City of Perryville takes a step in a major project.
Perryville is in the process of replacing and upsizing the lift station on School Street.
Lift station connections to the new trunk line are still under design and will come back before the Board of Aldermen in the near future, along with requests to acquire needed easements to install that line.
The city is seeking a variance from the Department of Natural Resources.
Perryville City Administrator Brent Buerck will attend a meeting with the Clean Water Commission in April
“We have to explain our design and how it meets the intention of their regulations,” he said. “We took a different approach to our design and we just have to go up there and explain our position. We are asking DNR about our design and if it’s acceptable under their regulation.”
There are 22 lift stations in Perryville and allow the sewer system to function.
“Sewer and everything goes downhill and we need a lift station when it reaches the bottom,” Buerck said. “So our sewer goes to gravity, gets to the lift station and goes to gravity again.”
The lift station at School Street is being redesigned, because Buerck said it is the city’s “most problematic one.”
“It’s where we have our most high water issues,” Buerck said. “We are trying to address that. It is old and also undersized. A lot of water flows from there and some of our lines have cracks in them so when it rains it absorbs the water and then overflows that lift station. We are trying to increase the capacity.”
The design will be about $250,000 expense, but Buerck is optimistic that NR will accept the variance.
“We won’t know until April,” Buerck said. “If they don’t accept it, then we have to design it to DNR’s standards. We need the lift station.”
