Despite the considerable seasonal pressures of the fluctuating population at Indiana’s largest and most popular lake, Tim Woodward is understandably cheerful to see capacity increase by a much-needed 60% - at a cost of just $500,000 (€429,000), compared to what many proposed would be more in the region of $8 million to $9 million (€6.8-€7.7 million).
That comparatively meagre half-a-million dollars arrives in the shape of two new, 11-foot rotors (from Lakeside Equipment Corporation) that will mix and aerate sewage; one of which, importantly, will be in operation before the Fourth of July, when the plant’s flow rockets up from its winter low of 300,000 gallons a day, to a staggering 1.2 million.
The gulf in price came about from the decision by Tim and the Board of Trustees of the Turkey Creek Regional Sewer District (all volunteers) to invest in the Lakeside rotors, rather than have a new oxidation ditch installed.
