WRIS SX21149031

About Us

Loan Programs

Loan Calculator

WRIS

Internet Mapping

WRIS Portal

System Data

Project Profile Data

Cleaner Water Program Funding

SRF Project Funding

Area Water Management Planning Councils

Downloadable Reports

Water Management Coordinators

ADD GIS Staff

Legislation
& Regulations

WRIS Contact

Don Schierer
502-892-3486
E-mail

Working...

Clean Water Project Profile:

This profile is currently locked (Grant Recipient (Federal)).

Project Title:	Calhoun Wastewater Plant Replacement Project
Project Number:	SX21149031	AWMPC:	GRADD
Funding Status:	Not Funded	Date Approved by AWMPC:	03.07.2018
Project Status:	Approved	Primary County:	McLean
Project Schedule:	0-2 Years	Planning Unit:	McLean
E-ClearingHouse SAI:	KY201805170617	ECH Status:	Approved
Primary System:	KY0020125 Calhoun Water Works	ADD WMC Contact:	Dana Garrett
Legal Applicant:	City of Calhoun
Entity Type:	Incorporated City

Narrative
Applicant
AdministrationBudget
& Schedule
Impacts
ComponentsSustainable
Infrastructure
Audit

Project Title:
Calhoun Wastewater Plant Replacement Project

Project Description:
The City of Calhoun Wastewater Treatment Plant has serviced the City of Calhoun’s 478 customers for approximately 45 years. The City of Calhoun operates under a two-fold plant, with Plant One built in 1973 and Plant Two built in 1979. Originally constructed for Total Suspended Solids (TSS) removal and biological treatment of organic pollutants, the current wastewater treatment facility has not progressed with the health and safety expectations of the Kentucky Division of Water and the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Kentucky DOW currently requires wastewater treatment plants to operate with nutrient removal causing the Calhoun Wastewater Treatment Plant to not meet state standards. Additionally, the City of Calhoun has been notified by the United States Environmental Protection Agency that the wastewater treatment plant is in violation of total phosphorus levels exceeding safety standards. Please see attached Notice of Violation from the US Environmental Protection Agency. The proposed project to replace the wastewater treatment plant, ensuring compliance with both the Kentucky DOW and the United States EPA. The proposed project includes the following components: • Replacement of the existing City of Calhoun Wastewater Treatment Plant, keeping the steel basins operating at 0.4mgd (million gallons per day) • Construction of new influent screening structure; • Construction of new oxidation ditch with nutrient removal tank; • Addition of two new final clarifiers; • Return sludge pumping station installation; • New paracetic acid disinfection tank inclusion; • Two new sludge storage tank construction; • Site piping and electrical improvements; and • Refurbishing and painting of the single remaining steel treatment tank. The proposed project will provide a new oxidation ditch with nutrient removal to prevent further failure from the Calhoun Wastewater Treatment Plant. This project also includes constructing a new headworks with bar screening, new influent flow metering, one Biological Nutrient Removal (BNR) oxidation ditch and two final clarifiers to treat an average daily flow of 0.4mgd, effluent disinfection using Peracetic acid, effluent flow measurement and sludge storage for winter month operation. During the hydraulic detention time of about 25 hours, the ditch would function to remove biodegradable organics from the wastewater. A nutrient removal process will be included to allow some uptake of phosphorus and denitrification of nitrate. Upon leaving the oxidation ditch, the effluent would enter two final clarifiers, which would work to separate microorganisms from the activated sludge through a process called settling. The effluent would proceed to flow through a pair of Peracetic acid contact tanks for disinfection. The old steel package treatment plant will be used as equalization for back-up biological treatment system should any unanticipated maintenance be required on the oxidation ditch.

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:
Negotiated from the original $3,000 fine, the current wastewater treatment plant costs the City of Calhoun a Notice of Violation (NOV) totaling $1,000- from EPA for total phosphorus standards. The City of Calhoun has also received NOVs for the amount of fecal nutrients removed from the wastewater. The EPA recommends 200ml at most for fecal nutrients but the Calhoun Wastewater Treatment Plant is currently operating at 400ml. Additionally, the last e-coli sample taken from the Calhoun Wastewater Treatment and sent to the Kentucky Division of Water plant failed. Inadequate wastewater treatment has also led to KPDES permit effluent limit violation and threats to public health. The stretch of the Green River that the Calhoun effluent is discharge to is considered a High Quality water per state regulations, and warrants positive steps to ensure its water quality is protected. Permit violations have led to an enforcement action, civil penalties and an Agreed Order by the City of Calhoun. The current plant was not designed to treat phosphorus. At the time of its construction in 1973, the current phosphorus regulations were not in place. Currently, raw water flows into the plant with no mechanism to slow down the flow. As a result, a large amount of chemicals are required to combat the phosphorus. These chemicals present an additional cost for the City of Calhoun, totaling approximately $15,000 per year. The chemicals are necessity in the upkeep of the current wastewater treatment plant in order to keep the phosphorus/nitrate levels below 1.0 parts per million as required by the Kentucky Division of Water. In addition to the previously mentioned compliance issues with the Kentucky Division of Water and US Environmental Protection Agency, the current wastewater treatment plant is failing with infiltration and inflow. The existing biological treatment system relies on two equally-sized, CanTex Steel package plants which contain failing internal walls. At the age of 40 years old, the existing steel package treatment units

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.

•	Optimization of Existing Facilities – Optimization of the existing Calhoun WWTP was considered. The WWTP has several deficiencies that are beyond mere optimization including:
o	Sludge storage tanks have an inadequate volume, 
o	Flow measurement is inadequate, 
o	Influent screening is non-existent, and 
o	Steel treatment tanks are failing due to age

Alternate B:

•	Possible Regionalization – Regionalization of wastewater management will help to minimize the number of wastewater discharges into state waters. The Calhoun WWTP is the only regional treatment facility in the planning area, therefore, consolidating wastewater treatment with another facility is not feasible. Owensboro, KY is 17 miles northeast of Calhoun and to consider regionalization would include pumping at extreme distances which is not feasible.

Entity Information
Entity Type:	Incorporated City
Entity Name:	City of Calhoun
PSC Group ID:	8800900
Office EMail:	tara@cityofcalhounky.com
Web URL:
Office Phone:	270-273-3092	Fax:	270-273-9717

Entity Address Information
	Mail Address	Physical Address
Address Line 1:	PO Box 294 325 W 2nd St
Address Line 2:
City, State Zip:	Calhoun , KY 42327

Entity Contact Information
Contact Type	Name	Title	EMail	Phone	Cell
Business Contact:	Tara Woodburn	City Clerk	tara@cityofcalhounky.com	270-273-3092
Authorized Official:	Bruce Cabbage	Mayor	mayor@cityofcalhounky.com	270-993-0149

Information Source:	Kentucky Department for Local Government
Date Last Modified:	04.25.2024

Project Administrator (PA) Information

Name:	Dana Garrett
Title:	Infrastructure Planner
Organization:	Green River Area Development District
EMail:	danagarrett@gradd.com
Phone:	270-926-4433 Fax:
Address Line 1:	300 GRADD Way
Address Line 2:
City, State Zip:	Owensboro , KY 42301

Applicant Contact (AC) Information

Name:	Bruce Cabbage
Title:	Mayor
Organization:	City of Calhoun
EMail:	mayor@cityofcalhounky.com
Phone:	270-993-0149 Fax:
Address Line 1:	325 W 2nd St
Address Line 2:
City, State Zip:	Calhoun , KY 42327

Project Engineer (PE) Information
This project requires a licensed Professional Engineer. A Professional Engineer has been procured for this project.

Estimated Budget As-Bid Budget

Project Cost Categories
Cost Category	Cost
Administrative Expenses:	$50,000
Legal Expenses:
Land, Appraisals, Easements:
Relocation Expense & Payments:
Planning:
Engineering Fees - Design:	$25,000
Engineering Fees - Construction:	$248,195
Engineering Fees - Inspection:	$170,623
Engineering Fees - Other:
Construction:	$3,518,000
Equipment:
Miscellaneous:
Contingencies:	$913,182
Total Project Cost:	$4,925,000

Construction Cost Categories
Cost Category	Cost
WWTP Secondary Portion:	$3,518,000
WWTP Advanced Portion:
Inflow & Infiltration Correction:
Major Sewer Rehabilitation:
Collector Sewers:
Interceptor Sewers, including Pump Stations:
Combined Sewer Overflow Correction:
NPS Urban:
Non-Categorized Cost:
Total Construction Cost:	$3,518,000

Total Sustainability Costs:	$35,000

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:	$4,925,000
Total Committed Funding:
Funding Gap:	Not Funded

Funding Source	Loan or Grant ID	Fiscal Year	Amount	Status	Applicable Date
KIA SRF Fund A Loan (CW)	A16-030	2016	$2,400,000	Declined	05-26-2015
KIA SRF Fund A Loan (CW)	A17-051	2017	$2,480,000	Expired	06-21-2016
KIA SRF Fund A Loan (CW)	A18-037	2018	$2,480,000	Expired	08-01-2017
CDBG	18-019	2018	$1,000,000	Withdrawn	06-30-2018
KIA SRF Fund A Loan (CW)	A19-079	2019	$4,976,300	Expired	06-18-2018
Total Committed

Funding Source Notes

Estimated Project Schedule

Facility Plan Approval Date:

Estimated Environmental Review Submittal Date:
Estimated Bid Date:	03.02.2019
Estimated Construction Start Date:	05.01.2019
Estimated Construction Completion Date:	11.01.2019

The following systems are beneficiaries of this project:

KY0020125

Calhoun Water Works

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:

MHI Basis:

Demographic Impacts (GIS Census Overlay)
Serviceable Demographic	Project Area	Included Systems	Included Utilities
Population:		1,119	1,119
Households:		537	537
MHI:		$55,046	*$55,046
MHI MOE:		$10,054	$10,054
MOE as Percent:		18%	18%
**NSRL:		1	1

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

Median Household Income (MHI) Source: American Community Survey 2018-2022 5 Yr Estimates (Table B19013 *(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 = $60,183
  - 80% KMHI = $48,146

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:	400
To Total Households:	400
**Cost Per Household:	$12,313

*	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

McLean

Legislative Districts

District Name	Legislator
House 012	Jim Gooch Jr.
Senate 08	Gary Boswell
Congressional 2	Brett Guthrie

Groundwater
Sensitivity
Zones

2.5

HUC 10 Watersheds

HUC 10 Code	Watershed Name
0511000502	Long Falls Creek-Green River

Potential Impaired Watershed Designations

303d	305b	Priority Watershed	Special Use Waters	Exceptional Use Waters
Yes	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

McLean

Legislative Districts

District Name
House 012	Jim Gooch Jr.
Senate 08	Gary Boswell
Congressional 2	Brett Guthrie

CW Specific Impacts:

Wastewater Volumes (MGD):

For this project:
For included system(s):	0.400
Reduced by this project:

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.

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):

Project Inventory (Mapped Features):

Point Features:

DOW PermitID	Count	FeatureType	Purpose	Status	Existing Capacity	Proposed Capacity	Units
KY0020125	1	SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT	STP REBUILD	REHAB	0.40		MGD

Administrative Components:

The following administrative components are included in this project:

Planning

Sewer System Evaluation Survey Report

Design

Construction

Management

Note: There are no audits on record associated with the applicant entity.

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.

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.

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.
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:

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

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

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).
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).
Item 7:	Retrofit or replacement of existing landscape irrigation/agricultural systems to more efficient landscape/agricultural irrigation systems (rain and moisture sensing equipment)
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:

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

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

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
Item 5:	Projects that achieve a reduction in energy consumption (pumps, motors).*
Item 6:	Projects that cost effectively eliminate pumps or pumping stations.*
Item 7:	I/I correction projects that save energy from pumping and reduced treatment costs.*
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.*	$35,000
Item 10:	Upgrade of POTW lighting to energy efficient sources.*
Item 11:	SCADA systems where substantial energy savings can be demonstrated.*
Item 12:	Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) controllers where substantial energy savings can be demonstrated.*
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.

This project will be replacing old, inefficient pumps with newer more efficient variable speed pumps as well as a SCADA system which will save the system additional funds due to the energy savings from both of these upgrades that will be built into the new sewer plant

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.
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.
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.*
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:

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

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

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:	09.01.2020 Download Fee Schedule
Rate Adjustment Age (months):	40

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

1.14%

The system has an Asset Management Plan (AMP).

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.

Activity	Date
Profile Created:	05.24.2013
Profile Last Modified:	11.21.2023
General Info Last Modified:	05.15.2018
Narrative Last Modified:	07.09.2018
Admin Info Last Modified:	11.21.2023
Budget Info Last Modified:	07.09.2018
Impacts Info Last Modified:	05.24.2013
Plans & Specs Info Last Modified:
Components Info Last Modified:	05.24.2013
GIS Last Modified:	08.22.2016

The profile is complete.