City Sewer Plant Upgrades Underway

Work is well underway on a renovation at the Smithville Waste Water Treatment Plant.
In August the Smithville Aldermen voted to award a bid to the W & O Construction Company, Incorporated of Livingston as recommended by the city’s consulting engineer, the J.R. Wauford Company. The bid was $2,794,000 for the project which includes an upgrade of the headworks and to replace the aeration system.
To help pay for the cost of the project, the City of Smithville was recently awarded a Community Development Block Grant in the amount of $525,000 from the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development. Although the grant will fund part of the costs, the bulk of the funding to pay for it will be appropriated from the city’s water and sewer fund surplus.
“We had a meeting Thursday, January 5. They have begun a lot of construction there. They have 365 calendar days and are 80 days into it. Out of the $2.8 million we have paid out about $350,000. Of course the first $500,000 we will get reimbursed from the state for our CDBG. Everything is going well down there,” said city administrator Hunter Hendrixson during last week’s monthly meeting of the mayor and aldermen.