Special Board of Aldermen 10-14-2021 Page 19
Dave Boucher, Wastewater Superintendent
We do, yes, correct. So we only take it from Nashua and Hudson because we have an agreement with Hudson as well.
Alderman Klee
And you mentioned about the 15% in 2022 and costs have skyrocketed everywhere. Do we foresee that this is actually
going to go up beyond the 15%? | mean, | Know with the joint specialist, quote, the building has gone up. Some items
over 100% of that and we're seeing 20%, 30% of a building type of things. But will that affect this in any way trying to get
parts and so on?
Frank Ayotte, Hazen and Sawyer
Going above 15% of it isn't projected that I'm aware of.
Dave Boucher, Wastewater Superintendent
We're gonna to do an analysis annually to review it.
Alderman Klee
With the COVID cost, we don't foresee any of this going up above 15? I'm thinking of delivery and all of those type of
things. | didn't know if this would affect your area,
Dave Boucher, Wastewater Superintendent
All our projects we're seeing long delivery lead times on everything. We also are aware of cost increases on all the
products we've been buying. So it's hard to project that. | think that's why it's important to do that annual analysis
because the economy is going to change.
Frank Ayotte, Hazen and Sawyer
And the rate model too will allow for that.
Alderman Klee
Thank you very much. | appreciate your answering my questions.
Alderman Lopez
So just asking for a friend here. | talked to Director Fauteux about this. River Dave was featured on a segment of that
radio show a couple weeks ago. Hopefully it brought some attention to the importance of wastewater treatment but it did
make me wonder about a comment made about the sludge and phosphorus which is a renewable resource in it of
benefit to farmers. But | mean given that the former owners of that material had pre-filtered it for toxins, you Know, its
waste for a reason. What are the additional treatments that are that are done to it before it's sent to those places and
has it been used on any farms near Nashua?
Dave Boucher, Wastewater Superintendent
Is this the phosphorus or the PPhos | guess they call it?
Alderman Lopez
| was asking about this the human sludge stuff. | didn’t know it had peat moss in it.
Dave Boucher, Wastewater Superintendent
Okay, yeah.
