Wastewater project advances at transfer site

Whitman County Public Works is preparing for the bid process on new effluent tanks to be built at the Waste Transfer site south of Colfax.

The two 10,000-gallon tanks will take the place of one 90x90 foot, 180,000-gallon evaporation pond which serves to evaporate all drain-off from the floor of the waste transfer station.

The water, called contact water, is now stored in the pond and evaporated or taken by tanker truck to the wastewater treatment facility in Colfax.

County Solid Waste and Recycling Director David Nails is working on the project with consultant Travis Pyle of Great West Enginee...