Next steps for new wastewater plant

City Manager John Harrenstein says Webster City’s new wastewater treatment plant will be, “the largest, most expensive public works project in memory.” If built for the estimated $31,881,680, there’s nothing in sight to rival it. The final design calls for both demolition and new construction. Significantly, it will be built under the Construction Manager-at-Risk system, one of the first such projects to be so-managed in Iowa. Demolition Comes First Before the 1939 construction of the city’s first wastewater plant, sewers emptied directly into the Boone River. The original facility had a primary clarifier, an open-air…