Members of the San Angelo City Council were joined by administrators, contractors and the Chamber of Commerce’s Concho Cadre, for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Lake Nasworthy on Thursday.
The event, held on South Concho Drive close to Lake Park, marks the virtual completion of a new lifting station that will soon eliminate the wastewater bottleneck troubling that side of town, and allowing for further economic development near the airport.
According to city officials, the project also enhances the overall safety of the Nasworthy pipeline, by eliminating the uncased conduit crossing the lake.
According to information from the city, the old system had been installed piecemeal over several decades, using 26 separate lift stations and 106 grinders to move waste to the treatment plant.
The Lake Nasworthy wastewater system, with an average volume of 500,000 gallons per day accounts for about one-sixteenth of the 8 million gallons treated by the plant daily.
The new infrastructure will increase the overall capacity of the Nasworthy system to 2.5 million gallons, creating opportunities for development in that area.
Funding for this project came from the Lake Nasworthy Fund approved by voters in 2019 and by bond funds secured by the City Council.
Officials say the Lake Nasworthy pipeline is approximately 95-percent complete and scheduled to be online within 60 days.
