The Pierre City Commission has approved the engineering agreement for the water treatment facility voters approved in June.
City utilities director Brad Palmer says the agreement with engineering company AE2S includes the details needed to build the facility.
He says the contract covers work AE2S will do from designing through commissioning of the plant.
Palmer says project costs will be paid out in phases.
Over the next two months, Pierre will be testing three different water filtration technologies to help decide which will be most efficient. Palmer says all three options are used at other water treatment facilities along the Missouri River, but he needs to know which filtration technology works best for the variables we have in Pierre. He says by the end of the year, city officials should know which filtration system will work best.
The three water filtration technologies under consideration are poly pressure filtration modules, submerged poly filtration modules and ceramic membrane modules. All three technologies screen water to remove dissolved solids and other particles before the water is sanitized for consumption.
Collectively, the studies will cost about $100-thousand, which was factored into the estimated $37-million project cost.
