BOARD00284

• Board Meeting Date: 1/12/1971
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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Grand Lake itself had primary treatment
only of its sewage but it did float $100,000
worth of bonds and increased its treatment
plant facilities to secondary treatment. The
construction now is approximately 90 percent
done on that Grand Lake plant itself and then
winter set in and the rest will be finished
next spring.

In 1969 along the west shore of Shadow
Mountain Lake a steering committee was formed
for the formation of a sanitation district.
The committee retained Wright-MCLaughlin Engi-
neers to carry the ball for them. An election
was held to authorize the formation of a sani-
tation district and the results were against
the formation. However, the people that were
bordering the lakes with their boat marinas,
camps and homes that had very delicate systems
that we knew were either discharging sewage in
the ground water table or the lake, kept push-
ing toward the formation of a district. After
a few boundary changes were made, the district
was authorized.

Wright-McLaughlin was authorized to do
the engineering plans and specifications on
the project which will take from the town of
Grand Lake south on the west side of Shadow
Mountain Reservoir down to approximately the
Bureau of Reclamation camp.

Last summer, of the homes that had failed
septic tanks, approximately 90 percent of them
have been brought back into compliance. It
isn't a long-range solution but at least
temporarily the sewage is not going into the
waters of the three lakes.

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Wright-McLaughlin Engineers are still
working on the project. They have submitted
reports to the state for review by the Water
Pollution Control Commission. Construction
this year seems doubtful because of the paper
work it takes to get the money from the federal