It likely will take at least two weeks before Greenwood’s wastewater pumping station at the intersection of Claiborne Avenue and Poplar Street is fixed, Eddie Curry, the city’s wastewater director, told the City Council Tuesday.
The council declared an emergency last month in order to get the pumping station repaired.
A group of divers had to be called in to plug a hole where water was leaking from a pipe. Tracks that have kept the pumping station’s gate in place also have deteriorated.
The city has contracted with McNeer Construction to remove the old tracks and to install new tracks, which should take place Wednesday, Curry said.
Rather than purchase a new gate, the city can reuse the old one, which was put in place in 1954, saving the city about $50,000 that would have been used to purchase a new gate, Curry said.
The gate is located at the bottom of the pumping station’s 40-foot hole, known as a wet well, Curry said.
The city has incurred other costs from trying to fix the pumping station, Curry said, but he did not provide a cost estimate Tuesday.
He said that the project isn’t expect to conclude until after next week, and the exact completion will depend heavily on the weather.
