CLARKSVILLE — The Clarksville Town Council moved forward on plans to address its Wastewater Treatment Plant and to attract two new businesses to the town during its meeting Monday.

Adoption of the compliance plan to upgrade to Clarksville’s Wastewater Treatment Plant as part of an agreed order reached with Indiana’s Department of Environmental Management in the fall was unanimously approved by the council.

The agreed order was due to IDEM by Wednesday, said Clarksville Project

Coordinator Brittany Montgomery, who presented the plan.

The town’s original agreement to meet the IDEM’s order was to upgrade the wastewater treatment plant and collection system including 10 pumping stations around town would be rehabilitated at a cost of about $18.2 million.

However, recent heavy rains have further delayed the project as a short-term stabilization project to a hillside near the treatment plant originally planned to begin this month has been put on hold.

If workers would have been able to begin work this month, completion of the stabilization project was anticipated to be completed by February.

“We are expecting the breakpoint to be submerged another one to two weeks,” Montgomery said.

The plan has been pushed back and is expected to begin around Jan. 1 and completed by April.

If the work is not completed by April 15 the project will again be put on hold until September, because the construction would interfere with natural bat habitats.

Completion of the project by the April deadline may also depend on favorable weather in the spring.

“That is a serious concern,” Montgomery said.

Two other contracts relating to the town’s stormwater were also approved.

An addendum to a contract with Redwing Ecological Services, Inc., the town’s environmental consultant on the wastewater project, totaling $4,600 was approved.

Another contract was renewed with Stantec Consulting Services, which helps to manage the town’s stormwater program, and is not to exceed $9,916.



Business expansion

Clarksville Planning Director Sharon Wilson offered the introduction of two businesses that are looking to locate in Clarksville.

Rivera Consulting Group, Inc., an information technology firm, requested that the town annex the property where it is looking to expand, during Monday’s meeting.

The company is planning the construction of a 25,000 square-foot property, off of Ind. 311, that will add $714,000 in property tax impact annually and an annual county income tax of $123,000, Wilson said.

The council agreed to move forward with the plan and an ordinance will be presented at an upcoming town council meeting. For more information on Rivera’s business plans turn to page A3 in today’s edition of the News and Tribune.

A second business, which was only introduced to the council, was Louisville-based Stonemark Granite. The company has expressed interest in relocating to a 12,500 square-foot space in Water Tower Square.

No official action was taken by the council in order to allow the business to pursue state incentives, but it offered a preliminary commitment to designate $100,000 out of Clarksville’s EDIT funds if the company does decide to relocate.



In other business:

• The council approved a contract with the Louisville-based Corradino Group to begin an Eastern Boulevard revitalization project. A grant from Indiana’s Office of Community and Rural Affairs is paying $50,000 toward the project and the remainder of the $149,766 price tag will be paid through redevelopment funds.

The contract was unanimously approved.

• An additional appropriation ordinance — 2011-15 — was unanimously approved to obligate $84,000 from Clarksville’s General Fund to its sanitation and street departments. The amounts totaled $22,000 and $62,000, respectively.

The funding had previously been approved to go toward police department salaries and insurance — totaling $35,000 and $49,000, respectively — but were not needed.

• An annual contract was renewed with Allsource Telecom for telephone service at the municipal center. It was recommended the town switch from AT&T as its service provider to Windstream Communications. The switch is anticipated to save $447 per month and was unanimously approved.

• Montgomery warned of traffic delays at Blackiston Mill Road and Potters Lane in Clarksville and encouraged drivers to avoid the intersection if possible due to construction work under way.