Port of West St. Mary addresses water plant

Executive Director of the Port of West St. Mary David Allain reported to port commissioners Tuesday that he and Reed Miller of Miller Engineers, Inc. have come up with a solution to bring the port’s water plant into compliance with chlorination bi-product regulation standards of the Louisiana Department of Health.
Allain said DHH has given them until Friday to implement the plan, which is meant to reduce the amount of Trihalomethane in the plant’s water.
“We are trying to alleviate going from a pre-chemical treatment, which loads the (water) tank with chlorine, to a post-chemical treatment which will only chlorinate when we run our service pumps to deliver water to our customers,” Allain said.
He and Miller reported that it is their reckoning that the rise in TTHM levels is likely due to the summer heat affecting the byproduct output as the water sits in the tanks waiting to be pumped out.
Also in the executive director’s report was news that Miller Engineers is waiting on quotes for renovating the roof of the Superior building at the port’s Baldwin campus, and will wait but two more weeks, having yet received none.
It was reported, as well, that the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development Port Priority Project # H.013325 is “winding down,” with the cap of the bulkhead set to be poured by the end of the week.
And lastly, Greg Paul and Joe Phillips, the commissioners for the city of Franklin, were reappointed; and next month’s regular meeting date was changed from Nov. 5 to Nov. 12.