Livingston Mayor Lori Elder Burnett said long-awaited improvements to the city’s Wastewater Plant will begin in the next week.
The city received the grant money previously for the upgrades, but Burnett told Aldermen Monday night the city has been waiting on a contractor.
“They were finishing up and there may have been some weather delays finishing up a project, but they are supposed to start on that,” Burnett said. “And I think it will start in the next week there, and we’ve had that CDBG grant for quite some time. So there are some improvements that need to happen but that has not gotten off the ground yet.”
Burnett said a separate energy savings project has already begun. It involves building weatherization, LED lighting updates, and the installation of variable frequency drives at city plants.
“The performance services project that we had multiple items for energy savings, it has started,” Burnett said. “We are still don’t have the total go-ahead for the solar panels, but that’s still being worked on doing, trying to tweak a few things for the solar panel at the raw water intake, but they have been doing building weatherization, they’ve been doing some updates to some LED lighting.”