Potential sites for a new campus wastewater treatment plant will be described and discussed at a public meeting Thursday, Nov. 17, at the University of California, Davis.
The meeting will be held 5:30-7 p.m. in the De Carli Room on the second floor of Memorial Union. Members of the public are invited to attend and offer ideas and comments.
Campus planners have analyzed three potential sites on campus for the new facility. Two sites are west of Highway 113 and one site is south of Interstate 80. The new plant will provide additional capacity for the growing campus and assure continued compliance with wastewater discharge requirements. Treated campus wastewater is currently discharged into the south fork of Putah Creek, providing the only flow in certain sections of the creek during dry seasons.
The new facility, expected to cost $17 million, will occupy approximately 15 acres. The regents' 1995 budget for capital improvements includes a $1.2 million request for state funds for project planning. Construction funds would be requested in 1997-98, based on the current plan to complete the facility in 1999.