The Miller Environmental Terminated,
MES Takes Over

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Former plant operator sues town article in 5/10/2005 Star-Democrat - "The company formerly responsible for the operation of the Centreville wastewater treatment plant is suing the town and town manager Royden N. Powell III for breach of contract and defamation."

Miller Environmental Termination Notice - "On August 28 and 29, 2004, Miller failed to keep discharge and flow records in accordance with this license as an operator of a wastewater treatment facility. Further, on these same dates, Miller failed to keep records related to North and South Pump Station operations"

Proposal from MES - "The Service had visited the Town's newly constructed wastewater treatment plant and associated pump stations on September 7, 2004 at the request of Mr. Powell. Subsequent to the September 7 meeting the Town requested, and the Service provided, proposals for (a) supervisory services and (b) full-time operations of the water treatment, wastewater treatment, and pump station facilities serving the Town. The Town accepted neither of these proposals."

Severn-Trent Protest - "The Town did not supply adequate information with the Request for Proposal and directed the bidders to contact the Town's engineer in writing seven days prior to the bid opening for further information. The Request for Proposals is dated October 8th with a due date of October 15th, Requests for information would have been due October 7th to comply with the Request for Proposals."

Royden Powell's report to MDE 10/8/2004 - (18 megabytes) - "Given certain questions related to the operation of the facility and involving data which MEI is responsible for maintaining, I forwarded MDE' s request for information to MEI for their written responses to these questions."

North Pumping Station Maintenance Logs - compare the quality of Miller Environmental's work vs. Terry Adam's

North and South Pumping Station Log sheets