Kalispell City Council poised to fast track sewage plant upgrades

Kalispell city councilors appeared in agreement Monday to adopt a plan to fast-track upgrades to the municipality’s wastewater treatment plant and could vote on it as soon as Council’s next meeting.

The plan would help the city meet a fast-approaching deadline to complete the construction as it struggles to find an interested contractor, according to municipal Public Works officials.  

Kalispell’s treatment plant currently sends over half its biosolids to Glacier Gold Composting and the rest to the Flathead County Landfill. But with the composting facility in Olney closing its doors, the city will eventually need to send all its sewage to the landfill.