London Grove cuts the ribbon on its new spray irrigation

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LONDON GROVE ? The London Grove Township Municipal Authority members have dedicated their new spray irrigation-lagoon treatment wastewater treatment plant.

The plant, which was constructed on 57 acres along Rose Hill Road, was begun in 2009 and cost a little over $5 million.

The funding came from a grant from the Pennsylvania Economic Development Council in the form of an H2O Shovel Ready Grant and awarded by the Commonwealth Financing Authority.

Authority Chairman Richard Scott-Harper said that when he took over his office, ?we were in sewer overload.?

?It was my number one goal to get this built,? he said.

Bob Kane, representing U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts, R-16th of East Marlborough, said the congressman supported the project from the beginning. He added that the previous form of sewage treatment in the township ? stream discharge ? ?has not been a choice.? Better, he said, is ground water recharge, which is what happens to the wastewater after it is treated in the new plant and sprayed on fields.

The site as it stands now is boarded by a white fence along the side of the road. Inside the property are two large ponds containing aerators. Between them is a large building in which the water is processed and purified.

Municipal Authority Manager Karen Crossan said the plant is the second of two in the township, and it handles 98,000 gallons of effluent a day. It functions year around, but in the winter when the water freezes, the ponds have the capacity to store liquid until it warms enough for it to continue processing.

Crossan said the plant serves dwellings along the Route 41 corridor, and about 55 percent of those residents are now hooked up to spray irrigation plants. The rest have septic systems on their property, and no one is hooked up to a stream discharge system.

She said the system has capacity for about 500 more hookups.

Project engineer Ed Strauss explained that the treatment process has about eight steps as the sewage moves from a grinder and through a flow meter to a lagoon, then through chemical insertion and filtering processes, then to ultraviolet purifying and to another lagoon before it is sprayed on a field.

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