Village to spend $97,700 for treatment plant design study

The Fredonia Village Board has voted to spend $97,700 for an engineering and design study to install a new grit-removal system in the village wastewater-treatment plant.

The engineering firm Strand Associates will be hired for the study. The money will come from impact fees collected by the village from developers. That account has about $400,000 in it, officials said.

Public Works Director Roger Strohm said the grit-removal system will replace a bucket-and-chain system currently used to remove sand, dirt and other materials from raw sewage before it enters the plant.