Environment

Waste Management Proposes Moving Troubled LBJ Pump Station Inland After Years of Sewage Overflows

ST. CROIX — The V.I. Waste Management Authority is seeking approval to relocate the troubled LBJ Pump Station to a 1.67-acre site at Estate Penitentiary, with plans for a new facility designed to prevent the equipment failures and sewage overflows that have plagued Christiansted for decades. “The LBJ Pump Station has basically plagued the island of St. Croix for many years,” said VIWMA Chief Engineer Alex Bruney during Tuesday evening's public hearing before the St. Croix Committee of the Coastal Zone Management Commission. The hearing was held as part of the federal consistency review for the proposed reconstruction, which would move the wastewater facility away from its vulnerable coastal location and introduce backup systems intended to maintain operations when equipment fails. “What we have done is designed a facility that would basically prevent all the elements, all the down times that we have experienced with the old station,” Mr. Bruney explained. “We have moved it inland.” ...