WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAU) – Wausau's water treatment plant will be getting $232,000 in state grant money to help improve its facilities.
Public works director Brad Marquardt says the money will be coming from Focus on Energy grants in order to improve the efficiency of blowers by using the water treatments plants own emissions to generate power. “They'll use bio-gas to run, which will help us keep energy costs down and save on maintaining the plant.”
The total cost of the project will be around 2 million dollars, a figure which was already added to the proposed rate increases for water treatment in Wausau. Marquardt says the grants will be helping to keep costs down as well. “It may not seem like a lot in comparison, but it adds up.”
The city got help for the grants through Becher Hoppe.
