LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — Federal funding recently awarded to Lake County will help another infrastructure project.
On March 24, Congressman Mike Thompson came to Lakeport to present a ceremonial check for $320,000 to county officials to go toward the Full Circle Effluent Pipeline preliminary design report.
The goal of the Full Circle Project is to transport Lake County's wastewater to The Geysers for injection in its geothermal steamfield.
In July, Thompson said he’d included the request for the funds in the Fiscal Year 2022 funding package. Congress passed that package later in July.
One of the county officials on hand to meet with Thompson for the presentation was Special Districts Administrator Scott Harter.
Harter told Lake County News that the funding will update the Full Circle Effluent Pipeline’s preliminary design report, which was completed in November of 2004.
“There is a need to update the report due to updated technologies, potential new partners/uses for the treated effluent, and possible alignment changes from what was originally envisioned,” Harter said.
Harter said the county currently has a draft request for proposals into which he will incorporate the funding specific requirements prior to the advertisement.
“We’ll proceed through the consultant selection process and ultimately contract with a consulting engineering firm to perform the update to the 2004 document,” he said.
The updated preliminary design report will “serve as a road map of sorts for the larger project, identifying options and the preferred option as well as considerations for the ultimate design of the project,” he said.
Harter said the RFP is expected to be issued soon and he anticipates the county will be under contract with a firm for updating the preliminary design report this summer.
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