To prevent the city’s water and wastewater systems from exceeding capacity limitations, the City of Lake Wales is considering an expansion to its wastewater treatment plant, estimated to cost $89 million.
At their workshop session on Wed. June 23, Lake Wales city commissioners were given a presentation by representatives from Kimley Horn & Associates, which had been contracted by the city “to identify capacity limitations within the wastewater and reclaimed water systems.”
Jamison Tondreault, water/wastewater project manager at Kimley-Horn, presented the flow projections for the city’s water and wastewater system. Currently, the system is at 1.2 million gallons per day (MGD), which is over half the current capacity of 2.19 MGD…