Good news from city's Wastewater Treatment Plant

Submitted by Dale Martin

City Manager, Fernandina Beach

August 17, 2019

REPOSTED August 21, 2019

As reported by city Utilities Director John Mandrick:

Good news we are getting back to normal.  Our Treatment Train B is back on line and working well.  We our draining our Treatment Train A back into the headworks and will be cleaning it out next week so that it can be in a ready state.  We are back into normal staffing and have a list of items that we plan to repair and improve our operation.  The following are a list of all the employees that assisted during this incident:

Joe Cooner, Chief Plant Operator

Ryan Strickland, Operator

Frank Walden, Operator

Tim Brewer, Operator

Trip Duffy, Wastewater Tech II

Joe Evans, Wastewater Tech II

Terry Dodds, Wastewater Electrician

Ed Jara, Wastewater Tech II

Robin Turner, Wastewater Tech II

Casey Frank, Wastewater Tech I

Walter Gray, Operator

Juan Brown, Utilities Superintendent

Dale Crews, Utilities Purchasing Agent

Service to West Rock is still off and will remain off until Monday morning at 8:30 am.  On Monday morning we are planning on sampling WestRock’s sewer prior to resuming service.