Marana moving ahead with water treatment centers
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The Marana Town Council recently approved building two water treatment facilities to remove contaminants affecting several residential areas.
Residents of Saguaro Bloom, Continental Reserve and Happy Acres have pushed the council to remove the unregulated 1,4-Dioxane and Perfluorinated Compounds from wells providing water to those Marana subdivisions. While the council is under no legal obligation to remove the compounds, which exceed Environmental Protection Agency health advisory levels, they’ve agreed to do so at the behest of residents.
The council unanimously authorized the creation of the Picture Rocks Water Treatment Campus and Airline/Lambert Water Treatment Campus capital projects, in addition to $2 million in funding to get the projects started during its Sept. 25 study session. They also authorized the application of a low-interest government loan to fund the project, which will cost between $12 million to $15 million and take 18 to 20 months to complete. The treatment goals are to completely destroy or significantly reduce the contaminants in question.
