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Project Title:	Leitchfield Wastewater Plant
Project Number:	SX21085013	AWMPC:	LTADD
Funding Status:	Partially Funded	Date Approved by AWMPC:	12.15.2022
Project Status:	Approved	Primary County:	Grayson
Project Schedule:	0-2 Years	Planning Unit:	Grayson
E-ClearingHouse SAI:	KY202508260735	ECH Status:	Approved
Primary System:	KY0022934 Leitchfield Utilities Commission	ADD WMC Contact:	Izzy Miller
Legal Applicant:	Leitchfield Utility Commission
Entity Type:	Municipal Utility, Board, or Commission

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Project Title:
Leitchfield Wastewater Plant

Project Description:
Leitchfield Utilities is proposing to construct a new 2.5 MGD wastewater treatment plant to replace the existing facility and upgrade to advanced treatment. The new facility would include: influent pumps, screening, activated sludge treatment system, clarifiers, a disinfection system, biosolids processing components (ras/was pumps, dewatering process, and digestors), and an administration/control building. As part of this project, the community will be moving toward biological nutrient removal (BNR). This will allow for the removal of phosphorus (2023 TMDL) and meet compliance with the forthcoming phosphorus limit in upcoming permit. This will also position the community to better meet the future total nitrogen limit (future TMDL). While the new facility will replace a significant amount of components, the project will rehabilitate several components in their current headworks, influent pump station, and grit removal. The new facility is proposed on an adjacent site; however, design may require alternative site configurations. The current facility has several major components that are past their useful life and are becoming very difficult and expensive to maintain. Replacement parts are no longer available for many systems and the primary lagoons are not functioning efficiently. The proposed WWTP is design for regionalization per the Regional Facility Plan Update. The WWTP capacity and treatment components will enable it to be a regional WWTP and treat waste flows from the City of Clarkson and the City of Caneyville. The project will include flow monitoring to identify the most problematic gravity sewer lines in the downtown area. Pipe rehabilitation including slip-lining or CIPP will be done on lines with excessive I & I. Manholes identified as subject to excessive I & I will be rehabilitated in conjunction with the line work.

Need For Project: Briefly describe how this project promotes public health or achieves and/or maintains compliance with the Clean Water Act or Safe Drinking Water Act:
The City of Leitchfield's existing WWTP is nearing the end of its useful life and major components are increasingly difficult to maintain and operate efficiently. A new WWTP would allow the City to provide more adequate treatment of wastewater and meet current and future treatment parameters. The City is also planning for the forthcoming regionalization of providing treatment to the Cities of Clarkson and Caneyville.

Project Alternatives:

Alternate A:

Note: If project includes the construction of a new treatment plant or upgrade to existing plant, please explain regionalization options here.

Rehabilitate the existing plant.  This option has been examined and would be difficult while continuing to operate and limits the types of improvements that can be made.  (Less viable alternative.)

Alternate B:

Construct a conveyance line to another treatment facility (no other facility has been identified that would be close enough or substantial enough to provide treatment).

Entity Information
Entity Type:	Municipal Utility, Board, or Commission
Entity Name:	Leitchfield Utility Commission
PSC Group ID:	8803500
Office EMail:	lori.woosley@leitchfield.org
Web URL:	www.leitchfield.org
Office Phone:	270-259-4034	Fax:

Entity Address Information
	Mail Address	Physical Address
Address Line 1:	PO Box 398	515 S Main St
Address Line 2:
City, State Zip:	Leitchfield , KY 42755	Leitchfield , KY 42754

Entity Contact Information
Contact Type	Name	Title	EMail	Phone	Cell
Business Contact:	David Roof	Utilities Superintendent	david.roof@leitchfield.org	270-259-4034
Authorized Official:	Harold Miller	Mayor	harold.miller@leitchfield.org	270-259-4034

Information Source:	Kentucky Infrastructure Authority
Date Last Modified:	08.15.2025

Project Administrator (PA) Information

Name:	Adam Scott
Title:	Project Manager
Organization:	Integrated Water Management Systems
EMail:	integratedwaterky@gmail.com
Phone:	502-320-3782 Fax:
Address Line 1:	PO Box 917
Address Line 2:
City, State Zip:	Frankfort , KY 40602

Applicant Contact (AC) Information

Name:	David Roof
Title:	Utilities Superintendent
Organization:	Leitchfield Utilities Commission
EMail:	david.roof@leitchfield.org
Phone:	270-259-4034 Fax: 270-249-5858
Address Line 1:	515 Main St
Address Line 2:
City, State Zip:	Leitchfield , KY 42754

Project Engineer (PE) Information

This project requires a licensed Professional Engineer.

A Professional Engineer has been procured for this project.

Licensed Engineer Information

License Number:	PE 24507
PE Name:	Matthew Aaron Baker
Firm Name:
Address Type:	Work
Address Line 1:	Cann-Tech, LLC
Address Line 2:	1100 Glensboro Rd
Address Line 3:	Suite 9
City, State Zip:	Lawrenceburg , KY 40342
License Status:	Current	Disciplinary Actions:	No
Issue Date:	01.04.2006	Expiration Date:	06.30.2027

Phone:	502∙229∙1770 Fax: 502∙859∙0069
EMail:	mbaker@kyengr.com

Estimated Budget As-Bid Budget

Project Cost Categories
Cost Category	Cost
Administrative Expenses:	$75,000
Legal Expenses:	$20,000
Land, Appraisals, Easements:
Relocation Expense & Payments:
Planning:	$40,000
Engineering Fees - Design:	$1,833,142
Engineering Fees - Construction:	$458,286
Engineering Fees - Inspection:	$1,460,044
Engineering Fees - Other:	$50,000
Construction:	$35,803,560
Equipment:
Miscellaneous:
Contingencies:	$3,580,356
Total Project Cost:	$43,320,388

Construction Cost Categories
Cost Category	Cost
WWTP Secondary Portion:	$34,953,560
WWTP Advanced Portion:
Inflow & Infiltration Correction:	$850,000
Major Sewer Rehabilitation:
Collector Sewers:
Interceptor Sewers, including Pump Stations:
Combined Sewer Overflow Correction:
NPS Urban:
Non-Categorized Cost:
Total Construction Cost:	$35,803,560

Total Sustainability Costs:	$4,575,000

Note:

Sustainability costs are included within other costs
reported in this tab. This breakout, when provided,
is for SRF review purposes.

Project Funding Sources

Total Project Cost:	$43,320,388
Total Committed Funding:	$1,873,142
Funding Gap:	$41,447,246	(Partially Funded)

Funding Source	Loan or Grant ID	Fiscal Year	Amount	Status	Applicable Date
KIA SRF Fund A Loan (CW)	A24-036	2024	$1,608,600	Expired	06-12-2023
KIA SRF Fund A Loan (CW)	A26-004	2026	$1,873,142	Committed	11-06-2025
Total Committed			$1,873,142

Funding Source Notes

Submitting for a Planning and Design Loan in the amount of $1,608,600.

12.5.2024: Project Budget update for SRF FY26 (for P/D) per email and Project Revision from Adam Scott. (JCN)

Estimated Project Schedule

Facility Plan Approval Date:

09.01.1997

Estimated Environmental Review Submittal Date:	10.01.2023
Estimated Bid Date:	06.01.2025
Estimated Construction Start Date:	09.01.2025
Estimated Construction Completion Date:	09.01.2027

The following systems are beneficiaries of this project:

KY0022934

Leitchfield Utilities Commission

Checked box indicates primary system for this project.

Project Ranking by AWMPC:

Regional Ranking(s):
Planning Unit Ranking:
Total Points:

Plans and Specifications:

Plans and specs have been sent to DOW.

Plans and specs have been reviewed by DOW.

Plans and specs have been sent to PSC.

Plans and specs have been reviewed by PSC.

Economic Impacts
Jobs Created:
Jobs Retained:	100

MHI Basis:

Demographic Impacts (GIS Census Overlay)
Serviceable Demographic	Project Area	Included Systems	Included Utilities
Population:
Households:
MHI:			*
MHI MOE:
MOE as Percent:
**NSRL:			0

Population and household counts are based on the 2020 Census DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) dataset.

Median Household Income (MHI) Source: *(for the primary system operated by the above listed beneficiary utilities).

MHI MOE = Med HH Income Margin of Error.

** NSRL (Non-Standard Rate Levels):
  0 = Greater than or equal to Kentucky MHI (KMHI).
  1 = Between 80% KMHI and KMHI (exclusive).
  2 = Less than or equal to 80% KMHI.
  - KMHI =
  - 80% KMHI =

New Customers
New Residential Customers:
New Commercial Customers:
New Institutional Customers:
New Industrial Customers:

New or Improved Service
Service Demographic	Survey Based	Census Overlay*
To Unserved Households:
To Underserved Households:	2,027
To Total Households:	2,027
**Cost Per Household:	$21,372

*	GIS Census block overlay figures are estimates of population and households potentially served by systems and projects based on a proximity analysis of relevant service lines to census block boundaries published for the 2010 SF1 dataset.
**	Cost per household is based on surveyed household counts, not GIS overlay values.

Geographic Impacts
For Project Area

Counties

Grayson

Legislative Districts

District Name	Legislator
House 018	Samara Heavrin
Senate 05	Stephen Meredith
Congressional 2	Brett Guthrie

Groundwater
Sensitivity
Zones

4, 5

HUC 10 Watersheds

HUC 10 Code	Watershed Name
0511000112	Bear Creek

Potential Impaired Watershed Designations

303d	305b	Priority Watershed	Special Use Waters	Exceptional Use Waters
No	Yes	Yes	No	No

Note:

Impaired Watershed Designations only indicate that mapped components for this project lie within a HUC-12 watershed boundary containing impaired waterbody features. An affirmative indication for any designation will require a detailed analysis of the project to determine if any of the proposed project components will actually have a positive impact on the relevant impaired features.

Geographic Impacts
For Included System(s)

Counties

Grayson

Legislative Districts

District Name
House 018	Samara Heavrin
Senate 05	Stephen Meredith
Congressional 2	Brett Guthrie

CW Specific Impacts:

Wastewater Volumes (MGD):

For this project:	3.000
For included system(s):	2.000
Reduced by this project:	3.000

Other CW Specific Impacts:

This project provides regionalization and/or consolidation of wastewater treatment systems.

This project will eliminate a package treatment plant that is more than 25 years old.

This project will eliminate a package treatment plant that has received notices of violations within the last two state fiscal years (July through June).

This project includes an on-site mound, and/or decentralized WW treatment system.

This project is necessary to achieve full or partial compliance with a court order, agreed order, or a judicial or administrative consent decree.

Agreed Order Number: DOW 22-3-0196

This project includes components to achieve compliance with a federal consent decree.

Primary system has not received any CWA Notices of Violation within the previous state fiscal year (July through June).

This project is consistent with the approved facility plan.

This project will have a positive impact on drinking water sources within a 5 mile radius.

Planning Needs:

Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Correction.

Sanitary Sewer Overflow (SSO) Correction.

Replacement or Rehabilitation of Aging Infrastructure.

New Treatment Plant.

New Collector Sewers and Appurtenances.

Decentralized Wastewater Treatment Systems.

Upgrade to Advanced Treatment.

This project addresses PFAS or other emerging contaminants.

Rehab/Upgrade/Expansion of Existing Treatment Plant.

New Interceptor Sewers and Appurtenances.

Stormwater Control.

Non-Point Source (NPS) Pollution Control.

Recycled Water Distribution.

Planning

Other (specify):

Please specify:

• Based on the regional Facility Plan Update, the WWTP will be a regional design that is capable of treating flows from the City of Clarkson and the City of Caneyville.
• Flow monitoring and CCTV investigation will be done to determine the worst areas of I

Project Inventory (Mapped Features):

Point Features:

DOW PermitID	Count	FeatureType	Purpose	Status	Existing Capacity	Proposed Capacity	Units
KY0022934	1	MOTOR CONTROL	ENERGY EFF - VFD DEVICE	REHAB			EA
KY0022934	1	SCADA	ENERGY EFF - SCADA	REHAB			EA
KY0022934	1	SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT	ADDRESS EMERGING CONTAMINANTS	REHAB
KY0022934	1	SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT	ENERGY EFF - I & I FLOW REDUCTION	REHAB
KY0022934	1	SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT	ENERGY EFF - PUMP EFFICIENCY	REHAB
KY0022934	1	SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT	ENERGY EFF - PUMP ELIMINATION	REHAB
KY0022934	1	SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT	EXPANSION OF PLANT	STP - EXPANSION	2.00	3.00	MGD
KY0022934	1	SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT	UPGRADE OF PLANT	STP - UPGRADE	2.00	3.00	MGD
KY0022934	1	SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT	WATER EFF - RECYCLE	REHAB
KY0022934	1	SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT	WWTP - REGIONALIZATION & CONSOLIDATION	REHAB

Linear Features:

DOW Permit ID	Line Type	Purpose	Activity	Size (in.)	Material	Length (LF)
KY0022934	GRAVITY	COLLECTOR	REHAB - REPLACE OBSOLETE OR AGING LINES	8.00	PVC	782
KY0022934	GRAVITY	COLLECTOR	REHAB - REPLACE OBSOLETE OR AGING LINES	12.00	PVC	1,418
					Total Length	2,200

Administrative Components:

The following administrative components are included in this project:

Planning

Sewer System Evaluation Survey Report

Design

Construction

Management

Audits on Record
Associated With Applicant

Audit Year	Entity Name	Entity Relationship
2025	Leitchfield, City of	Parent
2024	Leitchfield, City of	Parent
2023	Leitchfield, City of	Parent
2022	Leitchfield, City of	Parent
2025	Leitchfield Utility Commission	Child
2024	Leitchfield Utility Commission	Child
2023	Leitchfield Utility Commission	Child
2022	Leitchfield Utility Commission	Child

Water Treatment Plants Eliminated:

This project includes the elimination of water treatment plant(s).

Sanitary Sewer Components:

This project includes a new wastewater treatment plant.

This project includes an expansion of an existing wastewater treatment plant.

Current design capacity (MGD):	2.000
Current treatment volume (MGD):	11.920
Proposed design capacity (MGD):	3.000

This project includes rehabilitation of an existing wastewater treatment plant.

This project includes upgrades to an existing wastewater treatment plant.

This project includes rehabilitation or replacement of aging infrastructure.

Total length of replaced infrastructure (LF): 2,200

This project includes new collector sewers.

This project includes new interceptor sewers.

This project includes elimination of existing sewer system components.

Security Components:

This project includes cyber-security components.

Green
InfrastructureWater
EfficiencyEnergy
EfficiencyEnvironmentally
InnovativeAsset
Management

Green Infrastructure:

Green stormwater infrastructure includes a wide array of practices at multiple scales that manage wet weather and that maintains and restores natural hydrology by infiltrating, evapotranspiring and harvesting and using stormwater. On a regional scale, green infrastructure is the preservation and restoration of natural landscape features, such as forests, floodplains, and wetlands, coupled with policies such as infill and redevelopment that reduce overall imperviousness in a watershed. On the local scale, green infrastructure consists of site and neighborhood-specific practices, such as:

Component		Cost
Item 1:	Implementation of green streets.
Item 2:	Wet Weather management systems for parking areas.	$35,000
Item 3:	Implementation of comprehensive urban forestry programs.
Item 4:	Stormwater harvesting and reuse.
Item 5:	Downspout disconnection.
Item 6:	Comprehensive retrofit programs designed to keep wet weather discharges out of sewer systems.
Item 7:	Establishment or restoration of riparian buffers, floodplains, wetlands or other natural features.
Item 8:	Management of wetlands.
Item 9:	Purchase of land or easements on land that has a direct benefit to water quality.
Total Cost:		$35,000

* Indicates a business case may be required for this item.

If any box(es) above are checked, please describe each below.

Appropriate stormwater infrastructure will be included in the project to address parking area runoff and best managing practices (BMPs) will be implemented.

Water Efficiency:

The use of improved technologies and practices to deliver equal or better services with less water. Water efficiency encompasses conservation and reuse efforts, as well as water loss reduction and prevention, to protect water resources for the future. Examples include:

Component		Cost
Item 1:	Installing or retrofitting water efficient devices such as plumbing fixtures and appliances (toilets, showerheads, urinals).	$10,000
Item 2:	Installing any type of water meter in previously unmetered areas (can include backflow prevention if in conjunction with meter replacement).
Item 3:	Replacing existing broken/malfunctioning water meters with AMR or smart meters, meters with leak detection, backflow prevention
Item 4:	Retrofitting/Adding AMR capabilities or leak equipment to existing meters.
Item 5:	Developing water audit and conservation plans, which are reasonably expected to result in a capital project.
Item 6:	Recycling and water reuse projects that replace potable sources with non-potable sources (Gray water, condensate, and wastewater effluent reuse systems, extra treatment or distribution costs associated with water reuse).	$250,000
Item 7:	Retrofit or replacement of existing landscape irrigation/agricultural systems to more efficient landscape/agricultural irrigation systems (rain and moisture sensing equipment)	$5,000
Item 8:	Water meter replacement with traditional water meters.*
Item 9:	Projects that result from a water audit or water conservation plan.*
Item 10:	Storage tank replacement/rehabilitation to reduce water loss.*
Item 11:	New water efficient landscape/agricultural irrigation system, where there currently is not one.*
Total Cost:		$265,000

* Indicates a business case may be required for this item.

If any box(es) above are checked, please describe each below.

• Non-Potable water reuse system will be part of the design to provide non-potable water to appropriate areas of the WWTP as well as provide for irrigation and other beneficial reuse. • Water efficient devices in restrooms, labs, and throughout the WWTP.

Energy Efficiency:

Energy efficiency is the use of improved technologies and practices to reduce the energy consumption of water projects, use energy in a more efficient way, and/or produce/utilize renewable energy. Examples include:

Component		Cost
Item 1:	Renewable energy projects such as wind, solar, geothermal, and micro-hydroelectric, and biogas combined heat and power systems that provide power to a POTW.
Item 2:	POTW-owned renewable energy projects.
Item 3:	Collection system infiltration/inflow (I/I) detection equipment.
Item 4:	POTW energy management planning, including energy assessments, energy audits, optimization studies, and sub-metering of individual processes to determine high energy use areas	$1,000,000
Item 5:	Projects that achieve a reduction in energy consumption (pumps, motors).*	$50,000
Item 6:	Projects that cost effectively eliminate pumps or pumping stations.*	$300,000
Item 7:	I/I correction projects that save energy from pumping and reduced treatment costs.*	$850,000
Item 8:	I/I correction where excessive groundwater infiltration is contaminating the influent requiring otherwise unnecessary treatment processes.*
Item 9:	Replacing old motors with premium energy efficiency motors.*	$600,000
Item 10:	Upgrade of POTW lighting to energy efficient sources.*	$25,000
Item 11:	SCADA systems where substantial energy savings can be demonstrated.*	$100,000
Item 12:	Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) controllers where substantial energy savings can be demonstrated.*	$150,000
Total Cost:		$3,075,000

* Indicates a business case may be required for this item.

If any box(es) above are checked, please describe each below.

• VFD controlled pump motors • VFD controlled aerators • DO and ORP probes to optimize efficiency of aerator operation • ORP probe to optimize anaerobic recirculation and mixing • LED Lighting

Environmentally Innovative Projects:

Environmentally innovative projects include those that demonstrate new and/or innovative approaches to delivering services or managing water resources in a more sustainable way. Examples include:

Component		Cost
Item 1:	Total integrated water resources management planning likely to result in a capital project.	$100,000
Item 2:	Utility sustainability plan consistent with EPA’s sustainability policy.
Item 3:	Greenhouse gas inventory or mitigation plan and submission of a GHG inventory to a registry as long as it is being done for an SRF eligible facility.
Item 4:	Planning activities by a POTW to prepare for adaptation to the long-term effects of climate change and/or extreme weather.	$100,000
Item 5:	Construction of US Building Council LEED certified buildings, or renovation of an existing building on POTW facilities.
Item 6:	Decentralized wastewater treatment solutions to existing deficient or failing onsite wastewater systems.
Item 7:	Constructed wetlands projects used for municipal wastewater treatment, polishing, and/or effluent disposal.*
Item 8:	Projects that result from total/integrated water resource management planning consistent with the decision criteria for environmentally innovative projects and that are CWSRF eligible.*
Item 9:	Projects that facilitate adaptation of POTWs to climate change identified by a carbon footprint assessment or climate adaption study.*
Item 10:	POTW upgrades or retrofits that remove phosphorus for beneficial use, such as biofuel production with algae.*
Item 11:	Projects that significantly reduce or eliminate the use of chemicals in wastewater treatment.*	$1,000,000
Item 12:	Treatment technologies that significantly reduce the volume of residuals, generation of residuals, or lower the amount of chemicals in the residuals.*
Item 13:	Educational activities and demonstration projects for water or energy efficiency.*
Item 14:	Projects that achieve the goals/objectives of utility asset management plans.*
Item 15:	Sub-surface land application of effluent and other means for groundwater recharge, such as spray irrigation and overland flow.*
Total Cost:		$1,200,000

* Indicates a business case may be required for this item.

If any box(es) above are checked, please describe each below.

New Facility Plan New WWTP will be designed for a higher peak flow rate Smart BNR will reduce the need for chemicals WWTP capacity and rehabbing the lagoon as an equalization basin will allow for handling more severe storms in the future as the climate change increase storms of record.

Asset Management:

If a category is selected, the applicant must provide supporting documentation in PDF format to substantiate claims.

Asset Management Components

Last Rate Adjustment Date:	10.01.2024 Download Fee Schedule
Rate Adjustment Age (months):	15

System’s monthly water bill, based on 4,000 gallons, as a percentage of MHI:

0.91%

The system has an Asset Management Plan (AMP).

Note: AMP scoring credit requires at least one of the following components:
	The AMP includes an Asset Inventory.
	The AMP includes a Strategic Plan.
	The AMP includes a Capital Improvement Plan.
Download Supporting Document

The system(s) involved in this project have specifically allocated funds for the rehabilitation and replacement of aging and deteriorating infrastructure.

If any box(es) above are checked, please describe each below.

Asset Inventory has been uploaded

The Utility District is currently working on Capital Improvement Plan

Water Bill is 1.18%

Activity	Date
Profile Created:	04.12.2021
Profile Last Modified:	08.15.2025
General Info Last Modified:	12.15.2022
Narrative Last Modified:	02.11.2025
Admin Info Last Modified:	08.15.2025
Budget Info Last Modified:	12.06.2024
Impacts Info Last Modified:	12.13.2024
Plans & Specs Info Last Modified:
Components Info Last Modified:	12.13.2024
GIS Last Modified:	02.13.2025

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