EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — A Eugene utility is less than happy with its new state-of-the-art wastewater treatment system.
The so-called Eco-Machine at the Eugene Water & Electric Board’s new maintenance facility is proving to be finicky, and the utility is examining options that include scrapping the half-million-dollar system.
The Register-Guard reports the utility was so confident the cutting-edge system would work that it constructed the main maintenance building without installing a hookup to the city’s conventional sanitary sewer system. Options now include adding such a link.
Utility spokesman Joe Harwood says the Eco-Machine does work, but needs a lot of babysitting by staffers.
