FONSI for Lift Station 9 Replacement Affidavit of PublicationNo. Zg ,QZ
FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT
IMPACT
TO ALL INTERESTED GOV.
ERNMENTAL AGENCIES ANC
PUBLIC GROUPS
As required by state and federal
rules for determining whether an
Environmental Impact Statement
is necessary, an environmental
review has been performed on
the proposed action below: Proj-
ect - City of Kalispell Lift Station
#9 Replacement Project in
Kalispell, Montana. Project
#C302266, Total Cost:
$2,084,100.
The City of Kalispell (City),
through its 2019 Lift Station #9
Preliminary Engineering Report
(PER) has identified the need to
upgrade and relocate Lift Station
#9 (LS-9), which is currently lo-
cated within the boundaries of
the Buffalo Hill Golf Course.
Constructed in the 1980's, the lift
station is nearing the end of its
serviceable life requiring several
expensive, short-term mechani-
cal repairs to maintain its func-
tionality. The lift station design
configuration (wet well/dry well)
results in pumps, valves, and
controls being located below
grade. This makes maintenance
activities difficult and creates an
area that is classified as a con-
fined space posing a safety risk
to the operators. In addition, the
size and shape of the wet well
contributes to solids accumula-
tion in the wet well, and the aera-
tion system that was installed to
help control odor and provide
mixing is no longer functional.
The lift station's design pumping
capacity of 300 gallons per mi-
nute (gpm) is exceeded during
wet weather flows which ap-
proach 380 gpm and there is still
the need for additional capacity
to serve a few previously ap-
proved developments within the
service area. Lastly, • the only
way to access the lift station for
maintenance purposes is to
cross the Stillwater River on a
bridge that is only intended for
light golf course traffic. This pre-
vents the use of the necessary
City -owned equipment to clean
and properly maintain the wet
well and instead requires the
need for a specialty contractor to
be hired for maintenance of the
wet well. The limited and difficult
access to the existing lift station
results in a higher risk of over-
flow if mechanical failure were to
occur.
To address these deficiencies
the City will construct a new sub -
STATE OF MONTANA mersible lift station located in a
common area that has been set
aside as a utility easement within
FLATHEAD COUNTY the Fairway Boulevard Subdivi-
sion. This site can be easily ac-
cessed from a regularly main-
tained city street enabling the lift
AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION station to be properly maintained
by City personnel. The submer-
sible lift station will have valves
MARY BOOTH BEING DULY and pump controls located in a
SWORN, DEPOSES AND SAYS: THAT SHE IS THZ structure
ctrwill be retrievable und level from
pumps
CLERK OF THE DAILY INTER LAKE A DAILY tils and
ahhoist. This wilsurface l
groiderade a safer
NEWSPAPER OF GENERAL CIRCULATION PRIM work environment for City em-
ployees
nate the haz-
PUBLISHED IN THE CITY OF KALISPELL, IN TH aids of a conf edispace. The lift
P
COUNTY OF FLATHEAD, STATE OF MONTANA, station will have a pumping ca-
pacity of 500 gpm to adequately
THAT No. 28102 handle current/future flows and
will be built according to the cur-
rent M DEQ and City of Kalispell
design standards. This will im-
proveLEGAL ADVERTISMENT WAS PRINTED AND nefiiciencr , safety,
overa l
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PUBLISHED IN THE REGULAR AND ENTIRE IS S ederaily and e lift
attatio grant/loan
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SAID PAPER, AND IN EACH AND EVERY COPY Programs will fund the project.
Environmentally sensitive char -
ON THE DATES OF OCTOBER 3, 2021 acteristics such as
threatened/endangered species,
floodplains, wetlands, and histor-
ical sites are not expected to be
adversely impacted because of
AND THE RATE CHARGED FOR THE ABOVE the proposed project. No signifi-
PRINTING DOES NOT EXCEED THE MINIMUM cant long-term environmental im-
pacts were identified.
GOING RATE CHARGED TO ANY OTHER An environmental assessment
(EA), which describes the project
ADVERTISER FOR THE SAME PUBLICATION, and analyzes the impacts in
SET IN THE SAME SIZE TYPE AND PUBLISHED more detail,
is available
the DEQ Web for site
scrutiny
FOR THE SAME NUMBER OF INSERTIONS. (http://deq.mt.gov/Public/ea) and
at the following locations: Mike
Abrahamson, P.E., Departmeni
of Environmental Quality, 1520
o East Sixth Avenue, PO Box
_ ------------- 200901, Helena, MT
159620-0901," 1, mabrahamson�7a
mt.gov, or Doug Russell, City
Subscribed and sworn to k Manager, City of Kalispell, 201
First Avenue East, Kalispell, MT
Before me this, October 3, 2021 59901. Comments on the EA
may be submitted to the Depa rt-
mer}t of Environmental Quality at
the above address. After evalu-
ating substantive comments re-
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vise the environmental assess -
Dorothy I. Glen oss ment or determine if an environ-
mental impact statement is nec-
essary. If no substantive com-
Notary Public for the State of Montana ments are received during the
comment period, or if substan-
Residing in Kalispell tive comments are received and
My commission expires 9/12/2025 evaluated and the environmental
impacts are still determined to
be non -significant, the agency
DOROTHY I GLENCRDSS
NOTARY PUBLIC for the
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State of Montana
Residing at Kalispell, Montana
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MY Commission Expires
of
September 12, 2025
will make a final decision. No ad-
ministrative action will be taken
on the project for at least 30 cal-
endar days after release of the
Finding of No Significant Impact.
Mark Smith, P.E., SRF Section
Supervisor Water Quality Divi-
sion, Montana Department of
Environmental Quality
October 3, 2021
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