Construction begins on Uniontown lagoons

The first of three lagoons lies in the spring sun outside the south-county town of Uniontown. A six-inch layer of human feces lies at the bottom and will be dredged up when construction on the lagoons is in full swing this summer.

Construction workers will begin clearing away vegetation and a thin film of topsoil in a dry lagoon outside Uniontown April 1, the first step in a $2.3 million state project to plug up the city’s leaking lagoons.

Over the next six months, workers funded on a state loan will first drain the 10-acre patch of leaking wastewater lagoons and then re-line them with imperme...