The Highland School Board has gotten the approval from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources to move forward with their facility plans on their waste water project. HR Green Project Manager Matt Wildman has talked with officials from the Iowa DNR on this project throughout the year and was pushing to implement a submerged attached growth reactor (SAGR) system at the high school, which is a lagoon. The school’s current waste water system is not compliant with the DNR’s ammonia and E. Coli parameters. At Monday’s work session, Wildman was pleased to announce that the system has received approval and the project can move forward. Superintendent Ken Crawford outlines when this project will be done, “Completion has to be done by July 2022. So, if we can get bids out next spring, get construction started next summer, and completed. It’s not like it’s an eight-month project to complete, it will just take a few months to do that. Then try it out during the 2021-2022 school year and by the time the summer comes around, doing the inspections and making sure everybody is good to go, then we’d be done.” Crawford says the school board has budgeted $800,000 to complete the project and looks to find a lower or equal construction bid for the project.