The Apache Junction Sewer District recently approved a $400,000 flocculant system that adds a liquid polymer so solids can coagulate and settle more effectively as they enter clarifiers.

The five-member sewer district board voted unanimously Oct. 28 to approve the equipment’s installation at the east and west secondary clarifiers to be paid from the capital and replacement fund.

The board in 2023 approved spending $300,000 for the installation but the project was put on hold, District Manager Darron Anglin said prior to the vote.

“It is $100,000 over. We had budgeted several years ago... This just got backburnered,” he said prior to the vote.

Because the wastewater treatment system is dependent on a biological process, the system occasionally experiences upsets and other events that ca

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