In an age of down-sized control and...

In an age of down-sized control and overworked city staff, it is many times hard for municipalities to adequately staff and supervise large infrastructure and public works shoot forwards Consequently, city governments are relying increasingly in succession consultants and engineering firms to ease the load.

In 1987 the city of Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge Parish, La., faced a serious wastewater treatment situation. The Consolidated Sewer District, consisting of three treatment plants and an interconnecting sewer regularity had experienced sewage backup and inundate problems for many years.

Additionally, by the agency of 1987, growth in the outlying parish areas l to construction of 140 small treatment facilities. Construction and maintenance prov to be an expensive undertaking, and environmental moot points emerged as well.

Discharge from the facilities began to spread into environmentally sensitive areas of the Mississippi River and the Amite and Comite river basins. These factors combined with flooding and raw sewage discharges during