157 structural deficiencies noted prior to collapse of concrete wall
VESTAL — Structural problems at the Binghamton-Johnson City Joint Sewage Treatment Plant drew the attention of officials months before Monday’s massive wall collapse, which spewed thousands of gallons of sludge into a tributary to the Susquehanna River.
An independent audit of the structure completed in February noted 157 deficiencies at the plant, and pinned the blame for a host of structural concerns at least in part on inadequate construction management.
“Design and configuration control during construction and into plant operations was observed to be non-existent,” auditors from LMK Engineers of Pottstown, Pa., said in the report.
The collapsed wall was part of the plant’s biological aerated filtration system, a network of 20 iron-reinforced, concrete cells that were constructed as part of the plant’s secondary treatment system between 2004 and 2006.
The collapsed wall bordered four of the plant’s eight “C-cells,” which remove carbon from wastewater before it passes to the eight “N-cells” and four “DN-cells,” where nitrogen is removed.
Auditors noted the following problems with the cells:
» Water was leaking between the joints separating the four C-cells affected by Monday’s collapse.
» Plastic debris embedded in the concrete walls of two cells.
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