THUNDER BAY -- Nearly three years after a flood hit the city, damage continues to be repaired at the local sewage plant.
City infrastructure and operations manager Darrell Matson expects work at the Atlantic Avenue Sewage Treatment Plant to wrap up by the spring of 2016, four years after the May 28 flood.
"It is a slow process primarily due to the fact that the plant can't be shut down for any periods of time," Matson said Tuesday morning showing the work being done by more than 40 contractors on site.
"As we've said in the past it's like trying to change the carburetor on a car without letting it stall."
Along with the damage being repaired, contractors are fixing anything in the plant as part of its normal repair cycle and working with plant staff to repair other parts of the plant that may break down prematurely. It's estimated, that the job will be around $37 million, all damage caused by the flood covered by insurance, one it's complete.
On Tuesday work was being done in the grit and screen area. That includes a complete removal and rebuild of everything from instrumentation panels to pipes to paint.
