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 Wednesday was a mirror image of Tuesday for the Rocky Mount Sewer District.
With still no word from the Missouri Attorney General on the liability of Lake Ozark, plans for Rocky Mount sewer expansion went before the joint sewer board. The sewer district has nearly $2 million in stimulus money they could use to hook into the city of Lake Ozark and travel to the Osage Beach/Lake Ozark joint sewer treatment plant.
Lake Ozark city administrator Dave Van Dee, member of the joint sewer board, restated the point made at the Tuesday lake ozark board meeting. He said Lake Ozark still needed to know if they would be held responsible if something goes wrong with the sewer in Rocky Mount. Rocky Mount Sewer District Attorney Bill McCaffree said he was waiting for a call from the attorney general on the liability question. That call came yesterday afternoon right before the joint sewer board took their vote. After taking the call outside, McCaffree related back what the A.G.'s office said.
"They are supportive of anything we can do to improve the system down here, as I understand it, but they are reluctant to tell anybody, as I understand it, that they are not going to enforce the law."
McCaffree said he had secured a meeting for this morning with someone in the office.
"I'll be there at 9:30 assuming that you don't throw us out and you don't have to tell us to take the door. If you do tell us to take the door then I won't have to go to Jefferson City."
Osage Beach Mayor Penny Lyons is the chairman of the joint sewer board. Her city was requesting a $500,000 buy in to protect Osage Beach users from treatment plant expansion.
She says sometimes during the summer the city reaches its current holding capacity and as the area has grown, expansion of the current facility takes on new meaning.
"There hasn't been a really good study on that, which will take some money, to see what we can do," Lyons said "My understanding is increasing the capacity of the sewer plant is not really a viable option. We would have to do a mirror image plant, which is a whole different thing. We won't be able to just add a fixture and say we are going to increase the plant."
After a bit more discussion by the board the final vote was taken with six against and one abstention. The deadline for Rocky Mount to meet the requirements of the stimulus money, namely a signed agreement, is Monday. |
