Open house will explain plans for new neighborhood wastewater lift station

City of Gig Harbor staff will hold an open house at the Civic Center on Monday, March 2, to show and discuss plans for a new wastewater lift station.

Lift Station No. 6 is to be built at the corner of Ryan Street and Craig Lane. It will replace an older facility built in 1973. The station will contain an underground collecting chamber, or wet well, and some above-ground components, including an electrical cabinet, a backup pump and an odor control unit.

On conceptual drawings, they appear about the size of telephone utility boxes.

The site is in the Harbor Heights neighborhood, just east of Soundview Drive and about 500 feet west of the shoreline. Design work was authorized by the City Council in January, 2019. No construction date has been set.

The open house will be from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the Community Rooms at the Civic Center, 3510 Grandview Dr.

The lift station is one 16 in the city’s wastewater collection system. A lift station, sometimes also called a pump station, is designed to lift wastewater or sewage from a lower to a higher elevation where gravity flow is not practical.

Lift Station No. 6 pumps wastewater uphill to a collector under Soundview Avenue at Ryan Street.

This story was originally published February 25, 2020 at 12:00 AM.