Sludge hauler hired for Coal City

It is a byproduct of the waste water treatment process. On a regular basis it must be removed from the town’s treatment plant. For the next year, the work will be handled by Synagro.
The Maryland-based company with a local office in Rockdale was selected by the Coal City Village Board to handle the town’s sludge removal needs.
Synagro will remove and transplant the material to a suitable application site where it will be applied to the land according to federal, state and local rules and regulations.
The village estimates its produces 400,000 gallons of sludge on an annual basis.
Synagro provided the village with three cost options to consider. The first was a one year deal at a cost of .069 cents per gallon.
Option two was a three-year agreement a cost of .067 cents per gallon for the first year with an increase in the following two years equal to the consumer price index (CPI). And, the final option was a five-year deal with a two year price of .067 cents per gallon and an increase tied to CPI the following three years.
After some discussion the board opted to enter into a one-year contact that includes the company completing all required biosolid disposal documents.
Synagro services more than 600 municipal and industrial waste water treatment facilities across the country, and was one of three firms to submit a proposal to the village for consideration.
In other matters:
• The mayor appointed Richard Crotteau to the village’s Planning and Zoning Board. A resident of the Prairie Oak Estates Subdivision, Crotteau fills the vacancy created by the departure of Sarah Beach who was elected to the Village Board.
• Village officials approved a request from Corri Trotter to “Turn the Town Teal,” during the month of September in observance of Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month.
Trotter and a group of volunteers will once again place teal ribbons on light poles and trees within the village as a way of bringing awareness to the disease. Trotter has been turning the town teal for several years, an effort she began in memory of her mother.
• Trustees approved purchase orders totaling $32,489. Included in the bills was a $2,969 payment to Cargill for water plant salt, $1,051 for unleaded gas and $1,510 for diesel fuel to Grainco FS, $1,860 in registration fees for village officials to attend the Illinois Municipal League Conference in Chicago, $4,295 for mower rental and a $7,018 payment for workers compensation coverage.
The next meeting of the board is scheduled for Wednesday, Aug. 9, at 7 p.m.,  at the village hall.