OSHKOSH (NBC 26) — The City of Oshkosh moves forward with design plan for the Water Filtration Plant Clearwells Replacement Project , a project over a decade in the making.

The budget for the project is currently $45 million.

The project was spearheaded by the Wisconsin DNR, after they informed Oshkosh the filtration system did not meet regulations.

The Oshkosh City Council gave public works direction on which design plan to pursue at their Tuesday night meeting.

At Lake Shore Drive, on the shores of Lake Winnebago, a fence surrounds large mounds of dirt– part of the City’s water filtration system.

“There’s 2 million gallons of treated water storage under that mound of dirt,” James Rabe, director of public works, says.

In 2007, the Wisconsin DNR informed the City that the filtratio

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