Utilities Committee Receives Final Update On 2022 Polymer Incident At Wastewater Treatment Plant

The Utilities Committee met 09/24/2024. They spent around 15 minutes receiving and discussing the final update pertaining to the 12/26/2022 Polymer Incident at the wastewater treatment plant. During that incident, 4-5 months’ worth of treatment chemicals were dumped into the wastewater treatment plant’s system which […]

Finance Committee Meets 09/09/2024 – Holds Police Workstation Item Until Next Meeting, Approves Sole Source Contract For Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrade Project

The Finance Committee Met 09/09/2024. They took up two items, one regarding the purchase of two additional workstations for the Police Department and one for a sole source engineering services contract related to the Appleton Wastewater Treatment Plant Hauled Waste Station Tank Upgrades project. The […]

Utilities Committee Meeting 09/10/2024 – Once Again Scheduled To Receive The Final Report On 2022 Polymer Incident

The Utilities Committee is meeting 09/10/2024 at 4:30PM. They have no action items on the agenda, but they do have two information items. The first is the final update on the 12/26/2022 Wastewater Treatment Plan Polymer Incident. This item has been on at least 2 […]

Utilities Committee Meeting 08/27/2024 – Will Vote On Request To Opt Out Of PFAS Class Action Settlement, Receive Final Update On Wastewater Treatment Plan Polymer Incident

The Utilities Committee is meeting 08/27/2024 at 4:30PM. They will be taking up the agenda items that had originally been on the agenda for the cancelled 08/13/2024 meeting as well as one additional item. The first item is a request that city staff and the […]

Utilities Committee Meeting 08/13/2024 – Will Vote On Request To Opt Out Of PFAS Class Action Lawsuit, Receive Final Update On 2022 Wastewater Treatment Plant Polymer Incident

The Utilities Committee is meeting 08/13/2024 at 4:30PM. They have two action items on the agenda. The first is a request that city staff and the mayor be authorize to immediately execute and file a Request for Exclusion with the appropriate courts and parties in […]

Utilities Committee Receives Update On December 2022 Polymer Incident – Attorney Abshire Does Not Know If A Formal Report About The Incident Will Be Provided To The Committee

The Utilities Committee met 06/12/2023. One of the items they received an update on was the wastewater treatment plant Polymer Incident of 12/26/2022. I’ve prepared a transcript of the discussion for download. During that incident 4-5 months’ worth of treatment chemicals were dumped into the […]

Utilities Committee Receives Update On Polymer Incident

The Utilities Committee met 03/07/2023. One of the items they received an update on was the wastewater treatment plant Polymer Incident of 12/26/2022. During that incident 4-5 months’ worth of treatment chemicals were dumped into the wastewater treatment plant’s system which stopped their digesters and […]

Utilities Committee Meeting 03/07/2023 – Will Receive Update On Polymer Incident Including Estimate Of Costs And Revenue Loss

The Utilities Committee is meeting 03/07/2023 at 4:30PM The action items consist of approving the 2022 Annual Stormwater Report to the DNR and awarding the 2023 Native Landscape Management Contract to NEW Ecological Services in an amount not to exceed $215,000. There are quite a […]

Mayor Woodford Provides Council With Update On 12/26/2022 Polymer Incident – Praises The Hard Work Of Staff Which Helped Avoid A More Serious Issue

The Common Council met 02/15/2023. In addition to the update on the Trout Museum/Ellen Kort Peace Park proposal, Mayor Woodford also provided an update on the Polymer Incident that the wastewater treatment plan experienced on 12/26/2022. I’ve provided a complete transcript of the discussion for […]

Common Council Meeting 02/15/2023 – Will Receive Updates On Trout Museum/Ellen Kort Peace Park Proposal, The 12/26/2022 Polymer Incident At Wastewater Treatment Plant

The Common Council is meeting 02/15/2023 at 7PM. The committee meetings last week were all pretty tame, so I would not expect any of them to result in long drawn-out discussions in the Council meeting, although some, such as the Legal Services reorganization, may be […]