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Effluent-reuse facility planned in Bayard

The Bayard City Council on Monday night awarded a contract for planning an effluent-reuse facility at the regional sewage-treatment plant south of town.

Trumm Engineering of Albuquerque will do the design work for $222,680.50. The project is funded by grants from the New Mexico Legislature and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The plan is to use treated wastewater to irrigate parks and other public areas.

In other business, the council approved amendments to expand a project involving replacement of water and sewer lines.

Bids came in $900,000 below the amount of money the city has on hand for the project ($2.3 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s rural-development division), so more lines than originally anticipated will be replaced.

Work has begun in the southwest part of town. The project will include new, larger lines serving Bayard Elementary School and Snell Middle School, according to Mayor Rudy Martinez.

Councilors discussed an addressing project intended to improveemergency-response times. Martinez said some streets will be renamed to eliminate confusion.

“We have a South Elm Street, a North Elm and an East Elm,’ he told the Daily Press. “Two of those will be renamed. We also have four sections of Canyon Street; two of them will probably get new names. There’s a Hurley Street and a Hurley Avenue, (so) the street will be renamed.’

He said a portion of Foy Street, which is divided by an arroyo, also will get a new name.

“We have gotten some suggested names’ from the public, Martinez noted.

On another matter, the council approved an amendment to the city’s animal-control ordinance to allow animals on the south end of the Snell Middle School property.

After officials expanded the city limits by 40 acres to include a site where a municipal cemetery is to be built, they gave 21/2 acres of the area to Snell. The plan is to move FAA barns and animals to the site, which requires the ordinance amendment.

—JIMOWEN

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