Lowville Village Board Awards Bid for New Sewer Line from Kraft Heinz

Lowville Village Board Awards Bid for New Sewer Line from Kraft Heinz
08/30/16 08:30am

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The Village of Lowville Board of Trustees approved a plan to

begin construction of a 24" sewer pipe running directly from the Kraft Heinz

plant on Utica Blvd., to the village's sewer treatment plant on East State St., at

a special meeting on Monday.

Highlander Construction, Inc., Memphis, NY, was awarded the contract to carry

out the work, scheduled to begin in late September with completion set for

sometime in December. Kraft Heinz had agreed to pick up the project cost of

installing the pipe, which is around $1.47 million total.

Kraft Heinz is undergoing a major expansion at its Lowville facility with the

addition of a string cheese line. Production at the plant is expected to

tremendously increase by mid-December, leaving village officials working on

solutions on how to handle the extra sewage treatment demands that will be

placed on their aging system.

The village has also started a $1.44 million project to desludge the lagoons at

the sewer treatment plant to help improve capacity. After the desludging

officials plan to add high-efficiency turbo blowers and aeration equipment to

better manage capacity.