The Slatington sewer plant has racked up a bill of $3,000 in violation fines.

According to Carl Schreiter of SAE Lehigh Valley Section, the fines were revised by DRBC as first-time violations that occurred before the August inspection. Schreiter works for the borough as a special engineer for the plant.The sewer plant met the compliance requirements during the latest inspection. However, Schreiter still presented a laundry list of maintenance items along with two large projects demanding attention to the Water/Sewer/Highway Committee during Monday night's workshop.He requested authorization to draft a response letter to the DRBC regarding all the work being done to update the plant. He advised the committee that the letter should be sent out immediately."You've got to come into compliance," he said.The first project will be to either repair or replace the current data logger."It will be cheaper in the end to just buy a new one instead of trying to fix the old one," he said.The second project that is in need of completion is fixing pump one of the Railroad Street Pump Station."It's a ticking time bomb and needs to be addressed, it has to get done," he said.Schreiter said pump one is the oldest pump and is "well below rated capacity compared to the other two pumps of the station."According to the special engineer it would only take about one to two days to fix the problem.Along with the two major issues, smaller ones were added to the "to-do" list. The roof of the station has a leak that is allowing water to travel down the wall close to the heater. There is a crack in the wall between the wet well and dry well, LEL and sulfate meters need to be fixed, a fence along the outside of the building needs mending and a door on the wet well is in desperate need of repair."You can shake the door and the whole frame could come down," he said. "It's maintenance but it has to be done. I look at these things when I go out to other plants for insurance policies. These are typical things at plants," he told the group.