This project supports design and installation of an Automatic Self-Cleaning Bar Screen System at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility to prevent excessive trash from entering the sanitary sewer system. The new equipment will reduce sanitary sewer overflow at the Whelan Lane pump station and decrease maintenance repairs to the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) Water equipment. The project will also eliminate sewer overflow cleanup costs and penalties from WSSC Water.

Implementation is expected to begin in winter of 2023 and complete in late spring 2024.

This project is needed to prevent trash and debris entering the sanitary sewer system from the Montgomery County Correctional Facility causing excessive maintenance for WSSC Water and equipment damage at the WSSC Water Seneca Correctional Facility Wastewater Pumping Station at Whelan Lane.

FY23 supplemental in G.O. Bonds for the amount of $500,000.

Department of Correction and Rehabilitation, Department of General Services, Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission Water.