Special Board of Aldermen 10-14-2021 Page 14
with that and is there help for water? | mean, it's really close to a drain but the drain is not catching it. It's on Pine Street
right at the bottom of a hill.
Lisa Fauteux, Director of Public Works
Do you know the number?
Alderwoman Lu
I'll reach out to you.
Lisa Fauteux, Director of Public Works
Okay. We can go take a look at that. We might be able to do something. Is that a street that's recently been paved?
Alderwoman Lu
No.
Lisa Fauteux, Director of Public Works
Yeah, sometimes we can help with those problems. We'll go look at it if you just e-mailed me the address.
Alderwoman Lu
| can’t believe | forgot to do that but okay.
President Wilshire
Okay. | would like to thank you for your presentation on paving. | don't see anyone else on that we're going to wait for.
So | think we're going to move on to the next presentation. Thank you very much.
Mayor Donchess
All right, thank you very much everyone. So why doesn’t Mr. Boucher and Ms. Osborne come up and sit where...All
right, thank you Madam President. So now we're going to do wastewater. We wanted to just give you insight into the
payment structure that the wastewater fees and what the residents are getting for their money. Before we begin, | mean,
the main point here is that these improvements and the system in general, the wastewater system, is really highly
regulated by the EPA and the DES at the State level. We are subject to many regulations as well as an agreed upon
consent decree to make various improvements. So in order to maintain the system in a working condition and to meet
the environmental requirements that we are subject to, virtually all of our expenditures are federally or State mandated.
But with that, you'll hear that since Mr. Boucher came several years ago, we've made very considerable improvements at
the plant trying to upgrade its condition. A lot of equipment was in very bad shape and Ms. Osborne is second in
command so to speak and she's done a lot of the work there too. So we really appreciate them.
The sewer system, of course, is something that people under appreciate. They don't really think about it very much, but
it's a very important system for the city, of course, and since the Romans developed sewers 2,000 years ago, they've
proven to be very essential in any functioning city. So with that, | will give you Director Fauteux, and Mr. Boucher, and
Ms. Osborne.
Dave Boucher, Superintendent of Wastewater
Okay, thank you. I'm Dave Boucher, Wastewater Superintendent. Okay, thank you for the first slide. Okay, so the
picture is showing an aerial view of the wastewater facility located at 2 Sawmill Road. The footprint that the facility sits
on is approximately 28 acres. The facility collects and treats wastewater. We serve about 89,000 customers here in
Nashua. We also serve as Hudson, a small part of Merrimack, New Hampshire, and a small part of Tyngsboro, MA.
Our goal is to deliver clean, clear water to the Merrimack River. The wastewater facility also consists of 446 miles of
collection system that we have to maintain. It's broken up in three different categories here: 82 miles of combined sewer
- this is sanitary sewer and storm water that shares the same pipe; 234 miles of strictly sanitary sewer; 130 miles of
separate storm water. The collection system is the network of pipes underground that carries the wastewater from
