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WILLMAR -- The Willmar City Council's Finance Committee could be nearing the end of its discussion on proposing higher sewer rates to pay debt service, operation and maintenance of the $83 million wastewater treatment facility. The committee asked finance consultant Springsted Inc....

WILLMAR — The Willmar City Council’s Finance Committee is continuing the discussion begun late last year on a proposed five-year schedule of wastewater rate increases. The increases are being recommended by financial adviser Springsted Inc. of St. Paul. The city engaged...

The facility has new and redundant systems to meet new water quality effluent limits for removal of phosphorus and ammonia. Higher quality effluent is released into Hawk Creek within the Minnesota River Basin.

WILLMAR -- The Willmar City Council has approved a change order in the loan agreement with the Public Facilities Authority for decommissioning old wastewater facilities. The change order will separate the decommissioning work into two phases: decommissioning the old wastewater treatment...

WILLMAR -- Willmar's new wastewater treatment plant completed a seven-day test run this week without any operating issues. Plant contractor Graham Construction Services began the test run known as a systems demonstration on Aug. 16.

Willmar residents, especially those living in the southeast part of the city, are looking forward to the end of the old wastewater treatment plant along 19th Avenue Southeast. When the old wastewater treatment plant was built, it was on the edge of the city.

The Minnesota Pollution Control people are directing that a Blomkest-Svea wastewater pond be built about one-eighth of a mile from my well. The recommended distance from a well is one-fourth of a mile. They say a clay soil is all that is needed. The engineer said the soil tested...