Read the full article by Cornelius Frolik (Dayton Daily News)
“The city of Dayton says it is in the early planning stages of constructing a new $250 million PFAS treatment center that would be the largest facility of its kind in the United States and one of the larger projects in the city’s history.
Dayton wants to build a new facility at its Ottawa Yards campus near the northeast edge of downtown that has the ability to treat man-made ‘forever chemicals’ in up to 96 million gallons of water each day, which is the water production capacity at the Ottawa Water Treatment Plant.
For a cost comparison to the $250 million project, Dayton’s general fund budget for 2024 is about $214.5 million.
The new advanced water treatment facility will try to combat and reduce per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the water supply, which officials say should help the city meet new maximum contaminant level limits recently set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).” …