PORT HADLOCK — A state-of-the-art Tri-Area sewage treatment system will prove more economical for residential and commercial hookup than septic systems, and also has environmental advantage, a county commissioner said Wednesday.
“Ultimately, I don’t know if the county wants to be in the sewer business,” David Sullivan, D-Cape George, told about 20 attending the Port Hadlock Chamber of Commerce luncheon at the Inn at Port Hadlock.
“That’s why we probably will be talking to the (Jefferson County Public Utility District).”
Sullivan urged that the county move expeditiously to design, finance and construct a sewer in the Tri-Area. He anticipates that grant funding will become more difficult to obtain as federal deficit spending continues.
“I think it’s important that we work as expediently as possible,” he said.
But at the same time, Sullivan supports a system that if feasible, economical and meets community needs.
Urban growth area
Sullivan’s discussion followed a PowerPoint presentation from county Associate Planner Kyle Alm on the Tri-Area’s urban growth area history and facts.
Alm’s talk included illustrations showing a sewage treatment plant constructed in the project’s first phase off Elkins Road for about $8.3 million. Three future phases would extend sewage treatment lines outward from the treatment plant.
