Miami Council Hears Presentation on New Waste Water Treatment Facility

Miami Town Council had a special meeting Thursday night. Freeport McMoran Miami Environmental Manager Jay Spehar gave a presentation about the proposed new waste water treatment facility. The facility will be constructed and turned over to the Town of Miami by the fourth quarter of 2010. The new facility will replace the old system which has evaporative ponds on top of the tailings across from Walmart, which need to be closed and environmentally reclaimed. The new state of the art plant will have a capacity of 640,000 gallons of water a day, nearly doubling the capcity of the old facility. This has the potential for additional revenues for the Town of Miami, since Miami will then be better able to serve the areas of Claypool and beyond.