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Section 18: Worcester County Subject: Water Pressure Msg# 1206400
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In looking back on my notes, I started contacting the Board regarding the Glen Riddle Waste being trucked in back in September of 2022. In July 2023, I received a response from Chip Bertino that stated Ocean Pines receives monetary benefit for accepting the waste from Riddle Farm in the form of payments from the Riddle service area to the Ocean Pines service area. I never could get any details on how much that monetary benefit was. I was told that each month the operators at Riddle report to the Treasurer’s Office the volume of waste hauled and where it was sent. The appropriate funds are then transferred between service areas.
Regarding my concerns about the “wear & tear," on the Ocean Pines Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP), I learned that the faciility is rated to process 2.5 Million gallons of wastewater each day. The current peak flowrate during the summer into the Ocean Pines plant is approximately 1.0 Million gallons per day. Of that, on average, Riddle is hauling approximately 50,000 gallons a day to Ocean Pines with no effect felt at the plant. However, anyone seeing the trucks going in and out of Ocean Pines might disagree. Commissioner Bertino stated a year ago that that pumping and hauling Glen Riddle’s waste not a permanent fix. The County had invested $100,000 in the design of upgrades to the Riddle WWTP to address the issue. In July of 2023, Commissioner Bertino stated the design was 90% complete and was submitted to the Maryland Department of the Environment for a Construction Permit on May 26, 2023 and they were waiting on their approval/comments. In addition, the County has obtained a grant from the Dept. of Commerce to construct the improvements I have heard no further updates from the Board. |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: I am, like you, a great advocate of using effluent spray irrigation. Still, it comes with limitations as to purity of the plant discharge. Less so in woods; more so on areas that people traverse. You are correct about the quality of our plant's effluent or at least it was the last I heard. How do you know about the quality of Riddle Farms' discharge and is your information current? If, as I've heard, Riddle is or has been trucking waste to our plant, why is that? Is their's maxed out? I guess so...or they've been having water purity problems or even both since one often breeds the other. Remember that the quality of our discharge was affected by an errant rake. Marty is asking a valid question; Is it possible that now, while we are under some water restrictions, that Riddle is using some of our clean water to allow their golf course irrigation. So you assume the effluent sprayed on their golf course is pure enough to be sprayed on areas that people walk on. And without mixing with clean water from an acquifer. I'd be interested in knowing your current source of that information. I'd also be interested to know why you believe that an email from an individual OP resident asking the questions is a better vehicle than demanding that the OP board of directors' ask those questions forthwith. |
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