Mount Hope Supervisor Rickard Tackles Hidden Valley Sewer Problem

One of Paul Rickard’s first moves as Mount Hope town supervisor was to find out why a so-called state-of-the-art sewer plant serving the Hidden Valley development wasn’t working right. About a hundred families live in that community, who, to this day, are still making payments to a decade-old, $1 million-plus loan for the advanced sewer system. It was once billed as one of the state’s first membrane bioreactor treatment plants and was constructed to eliminate issues plaguing an older facility—but problems haven’t gone away. “The sewage flow rates are too high,” Mr. Rickard, who had toured the plant in his first week as supervisor, told The Epoch Times. “The challenge is to figure out why we have that high flow and come up with a real plan—no one has ever come up with a plan.”...