Wastewater Planning and Permit Negotiations Client: City of Faribault, Minnesota Location: City of Faribault, Minnesota The City of Faribault is a rapidly growing community of approximately 20,000 people and home to two large food production industries. The City’s wastewater treatment facility was facing new effluent limits for phosphorus and ammonia, and was concerned about future, more stringent limits. Donohue developed a 20-year Facilities Plan, which evaluated a host of alternatives to comply with future, more stringent effluent limits, age-related deficiencies, and growth. Armed with the cost to comply with future warm- and cold-weather ammonia limits, the City and Donohue negotiated with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) to find a lower-cost alternative. The MPCA ultima

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