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bkibler@altoonamirror.com The Altoona Water Authority recently bought equipment needed to begin a five-year regimen of testing for bacteria downstream from its Combined Sewer Overflows, to determine what effects the CSOs have on streams. That could help determine whether environmental agencies eventually begin to pressure the city to eliminate its combined storm-and-sanitary sewer system serving the central area of the city — work that years ago was estimated could cost $75 million. “We hope to have (the equipment) installed and running this spring,” Mark Glenn, president of Gwin Dobso...

bkibler@altoonamirror.com The Altoona Water Authority expects to start $30.8 million worth of work at the Bellwood reservoir in October or November, after years of delays. Consulting engineer Gwin Dobson & Foreman is updating specifications and plans for the $20.9 million renovation of the dam and the $9.9 million renovation of the water treatment plant and has tentatively set up bid advertisements in July for the dam and in August for the plant, company President Mark Glenn told the board Thursday. The authority will pay for the projects with $30.9 million that Pennvest awarded in January, s...