Airway Heights wastewater treatment plant construction and testing is on schedule

By JAMES EIK

Staff Reporter

The construction on Airway Heights' wastewater treatment plant is progressing on schedule for its final completion in mid-November later this year.

Jeff Cochran, supervisor at the wastewater plant, said the building will begin to accept flows beginning Oct. 6.

“We're in the process of testing, currently,” he said. “So we're testing individual components, doing freshwater tests.”

Initially, the water leaving the plant will go toward Spokane.

“As we start developing a process within this treatment plant, the quality we ship to Spokane will continually improve,” Cochra...