While the improvements to the wastewater treatment facility in Perry is a large project, there continues to be progress. 

City Administrator Sven Peterson says with the recent approval of a pay application at the Perry City Council meeting this past Tuesday, the project has moved to being 3.8-percent completed which is aiming to reconstruct the major parts of the wastewater treatment facility.

“They have been doing a lot of excavation and sub-base prep for some of the clarifiers and outfall piping, things like that. Still moving ahead on schedule.”

Peterson tells Raccoon Valley Radio while construction is moving ahead, he says the project should be completed in 2022-2023. Peterson says there also have been issues surrounding availability of supplies. 

“Just kind of having to bounce around to different things on-site a little bit more than they anticipated purely based on the availability of supplies and materials so that’s causing a little bit of an issue but they are still on schedule and actively working at a good pace.”

The most recent payment to the contractor, Woodruff Construction, was in the amount of $610,900.60.