The Columbia Regional Airport could still be a part of the Ashland sewer project, but at a much higher cost.
As the Ashland sewer project continues to move rapidly forward, the City of Columbia has seemingly missed the first cut-off for joining in the future Ashland sewer project.
Ashland Mayor Gene Rhorer said the pipe is in the ground and a lift station in place and that two of the city’s three potential large customers of that project were signed and ready to participate – the Baptist Home and Hummingbird Properties.
However, the City of Columbia and the Columbia Regional Airport are, at this point, non-participants.
That fact is a 180-degree difference from spring 2015.
According to a “Letter of Interest” from the City of Columbia in April of 2015 sent to then-Ashland City Administrator Josh Hawkins, the City of Columbia was looking forward to working with the City of Ashland in anticipation of “the need to expand this (wastewater treatment plant) for future expansion.”
The current wastewater treatment at the airport is a no discharge system that generally has an average daily capacity of 20,000 gallons per day, according to the letter signed by John D. Glascock of Columbia’s Public Works Department.
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