Cheney departments honored

Several city of Cheney departments were honored with awards and statewide recognition at the City Council’s first meeting in September Tuesday night.

The city’s wastewater treatment plant was honored for the second year in a row with an outstanding performance award from the state Department of Ecology. The plant was in “perfect compliance” with all requirements under its National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit, a task the city’s public works director, Todd Ableman, said is not easy given Cheney’s size and complex challenges.

The permit is required because it discharges its trea...