LOS LUNAS — On Wednesday, April 22, the Village of Los Lunas reported an operational incident that occurred at its wastewater treatment plant on Tuesday afternoon.
During ongoing facility upgrades to the facility’s primary cleaning system late Tuesday, too much wastewater was diverted to the activated sludge treatment process, causing a an overload, or “washout” in the plant.
village public information officer and deputy village administrator Nancy Jo Gonzales said the incident did not impact the village’s drinking water, which runs on a completely separate system from the wastewater system. She also said the wastewater plant remained functioning the entire time…