Amador County – The city of Jackson last week posted a Notice of Preparation for Environmental Impact Reports for various projects to remedy its wastewater treatment plant, opening a preliminary comment period, and setting a public meeting for July 6.

City Manager Mike Daly said the city “hired Pacific Municipal Consultants to undertake the Environmental Impact Report to review the impacts of the proposed projects to help the city meet the conditions in the (National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System) discharge permit.”

Daly said “PMC has been working on development of the project description and initiated some field work to get the review under way.” The Notice of Preparation was released on Thursday, June 9.

“As part of the EIR process,” Daly said “the city has worked with PMC to establish a special website that will continue to be updated with project information.” The website address is JacksonWWTP.com, and on it, people can find the link to the Notice of Preparation.

Daly said Monday that the site is meant to inform about the different approaches.

He said it will take a lot of funding to go through the Regional Water Quality Control Board’s requirements, such as getting 30 percent engineered project ideas, so they can be shown to be effectively working projects for the Regional Board to make a decision on them.

In addition to taking written comments during the comment period, a public meeting with consultants will be held 6 p.m. July 6 at the Jackson Civic Center, to take oral comments. Daly said Monday that the comment period opened June 8 and will close on July 8.

He said there has already been an extensive look into the options, with the Sewer Rate Committee meetings, and involvement in the wastewater issue the city has been dealing with.

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