July 7, 2008--Downtown economy down the drain? (Pagosa Daily Post)
Sanitation Department Supervisor Phil Starks emphasized the big ticket: "Currently we are looking at $4.5 million for the treatment plant." The Town may be looking backwards two years at that $4.5 million figure — the Town will likely be staring at a bill far higher in 2009. At last month’s Town Board meeting, Starks himself presented the Council with some grim math: the new wastewater plant in Bayfield, similar in design to the Pagosa plant but only two-thirds the size, was going to cost at least $6 million.
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