The Webster Sewer Department and fairlife Impact of the fairlife Production Facility, the Town’s Sewer Project Capital Needs
The New fairlife Production Facility • 745,000 square foot facility • Up to 4 production lines • Will process up to 8 million pounds of milk per day • Supported by 60,000-80,000 local milking cows daily • Creates 250 new jobs • Wastewater impact the equivalent of 9,000 new homes • Will utilize reserve capacity of the sewer plant
Sewer Department Capital Projects Asset Renewal Projects (Required improvements to maintain operations and permit compliance) Water Pollution Control Facility: • Headworks • Aeration System • Solids Handling • Primary Clarifiers • Facility Improvements • Admin Building Renovation • Wifi/Security/Fire Protection Budget Estimate: $38,200,000
Resource Recovery, Revenue, and Efficiency Projects (Improvements that maintain permit compliance, plus create savings and generate new revenue)
• Biosolids and Organic Waste Receiving and Processing Facility Budget Estimate: $29,300,000
Capacity Recovery Projects (Improvements required to recover sewer plant capacity being utilized to process wastewater from fairlife facility)
• Expansion of Grit Removal System @ Headworks, Primary Clarifiers , and Aeration Basins & Diffusers • Increased size of most process systems
$14,000,000
Webster Water Pollution Control Facility Recovery of Capacity Impacts Planned Improvements
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WPCF Improvements unaffected by fairlife Administration Building Renovation & Expansion Site Preparation - Trickling Filter Demolition Headworks Screens & Compactor Replacement Primary Clarifiers Retrofit Building System Improvements HSOW/Leachate Receiving Station and Equalization Tank Solids Recuperative Thickening System Secondary Digester Improvements Truck Scale for Outside Waste Invoicing SCADA Control System Electric Utility Relocation Sitewide Improvements - Security - Fiberoptic Network - Site Lighting - Fire Protection - Stormwater Management - Paving & Parking Improvements
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WPCF Improvements needed to recovery capacity Expansion of: - Grit Removal System @ Headworks - Primary Clarifiers - Aeration Basins & Diffusers Systems that become larger: - Electric Service to Chemical/Blower Building - Electric Service Switchgear - Aeration Blowers - Ferric Storage and Chemical Feed System - Gravity Thickeners - New Primary Digester Tank and System - Flare & Gas Collection System - Biosolids Dewatering System - Biosolids Dryer - Dryer Building - Dried Product Storage Building
Secondary Clarifiers (Completed Project)
Chemical Feed and Aeration Blower Building
Aeration System
Primary Clarifiers
Admin Building
Headworks Site of New Biosolids and Outside Waste Facility
Trickling Filter
Solids Handling
What is the Best Approach for the Town? Do Just the Asset Renewal Projects or Do Everything? Asset Renewal Projects
Combined Plant Capital Project
Budget: $38,200,000
• Asset Renewal: $38,200,000 • Resource Recovery: $29,300,000 • Capacity Recovery: $14,000,000 • Treatment Plant Total: $81,500,000
Annual New Revenue/Savings: $0
$81,500,000 Annual New Revenue/Savings: $6,000,000
Even though the initial capital investment is larger, the annual cost savings and new revenue reduces the overall EDU cost for the Town’s Ratepayers.
Note the evaluation does not include the potential impacts of Webster receiving any grant funding. For every $1,000,000 of grant funds the Town receives, the per EDU impact would reduce by approximately $4.00.
Projected 30 Year Average Annual Project Cost & Savings/Revenues $710,000
Projected Percentage of Debt Service Covered by New Revenue and Cost Savings
2024
2025
2026
2027
2028
0%
51%
93%
94%
95%