A controversial study to determine the location of a much-needed sewage pump station found its current spot near Dunbar High School would be the cheapest and most cost-effective option, documents released Tuesday show.
To keep and expand the current pump station, which suffers from frequent overflows, at Mint Lane on property owned by the Fayette County Public Schools system would cost roughly $19.6 million, the $160,000 study done by Stantec showed. A pump station moves sewage and wastewater to the city’s two treatment plants — Town Branch and West Hickman.
That pump station has to be replaced as part of a 2011 consent decree with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to upgrade the city’s aging sewer and stormwater system…