A master plan is underway for Girdwood’s 50-year-old wastewater treatment facility and improvements could run as much as $100 million, said the facility’s plant manager during a tour Monday.
The plant is “reaching the end of its useful life”, according to an Anchorage Water and Wastewater Utility budget document. Its clutch of buildings at the end of Ruane Road digest around 450,000 gallons of sewage a day, but that amount can almost double at certain times.
And though the system can accommodate millions of gallons in a day, the flow over the course of a month comes close to meeting the plant’s capacity. …