City council OKs $50,000 for sewage lagoon repairs
Following an executive session Monday, the city council agreed to approve up to $50,000 to repair a damaged liner at one of the city's sewage lagoons.
Located south of Mountain Home off South 5th West Street, problems at the lagoon were first reported in mid-August after the protective plastic lining at the bottom of the 60-acre pond started to bubble and tear.
Composed of high-density polyethylene, pockets of methane gas started to form beneath the ground and a section of the liner along the pond's eastern wall. Like a balloon filled with helium, the excess gas caused the material to bubble, lifting it seven feet to the water's surface.
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