{"id":7411,"date":"2012-11-16T08:16:17","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T14:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=7411"},"modified":"2012-11-16T08:53:44","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T14:53:44","slug":"issues-at-water-treatment-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=7411","title":{"rendered":"Issues At Water Treatment Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/cityhall448.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-972\" title=\"cityhall448\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/cityhall448-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>JAMESTOWN, N.D. (AP) &#8211; The federal Environmental Protection<\/p>\n<p>Agency has fined Jamestown $2,080 for improper handling of chlorine at the city&#8217;s water treatment plant.<\/p>\n<p>City Engineer Reed Schwartzkopf says the fine initially was $5,000 but the EPA reduced it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Schwartzkopf says the infractions uncovered in a spring audit dealt mostly with administrative procedures, and that no chemicals spilled.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Jamestown&#8217;s water treatment plant needs to come into compliance with the North Dakota Department of Health regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Water is accumulating in the holding ponds located south of the water plant.<\/p>\n<p>City Engine Reed Schwartzkopf told a City Council Committee that it&#8217;s estimated those ponds will overflow around Christmas if a solution is not found.<\/p>\n<p>The water contains a high concentration of the lime used in treatment, and it would require processing before it could be discharged into a river.<\/p>\n<p>The Jamestown City Council approved $15,000 for engineering work to begin planning these solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Engineers\u2019 plans are anticipated within two weeks. At that time, any construction required could be contracted with an expedited work schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAMESTOWN, N.D. (AP) &#8211; The federal Environmental Protection Agency has fined Jamestown $2,080 for improper handling of chlorine at the city&#8217;s water treatment plant. City Engineer Reed Schwartzkopf says the fine initially was $5,000 but the EPA reduced it. \u00a0Schwartzkopf says the infractions uncovered in a spring audit dealt mostly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7411"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7416,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7411\/revisions\/7416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}