New Sewer Projects Will Protect Aquifer

Work is under way to connect 193 homes in the Forest Hills neighborhood to the county’s sewer system.

The $1.1 million project started June 30 and is scheduled to be finished by the end of September.

The Spokane County Public Works Department also plans to bring the Country Homes neighborhood on the sewer system by the end of the year.

That project, expected to also cost $1.1 million, will start in August.

“Fortunately these are projects small enough to complete in one construction season,” said Kevin Cooke, a sewer planning design manager for the county.

Between the two projects, Cooke said 500 residential units - which also include businesses - will be hooked up to the sewer system.

The county wants to speed up construction of sanitary sewers to eliminate sewage treatment facilities and septic tanks over the SpokaneRathdrum aquifer, Cooke said.

The Public Works Department also needs to meet regulations established by the state departments of Health and Ecology and the Spokane County Health District.

Here are other neighborhoods that will be added to the county’s sewer system by the year 2015:

Cozza; Hastings, 1998.

College, 1999.

Whitworth Terrace, 2000.

Camelot; College Homes, 2001.

Woodway, 2002.

South Wandermere; Waikiki, 2004.

Wandermere Heights, 2006.

Wandermere, 2007.

Gleneden, 2008.

City Garden; Westwood, 2010.

Pinery, 2011.

Pinery River, 2013.

Morgan Acres, 2015.

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