By CRAIG FREILICH

POTSDAM – The village’s $3 million wastewater treatment plant rehabilitation project remains on track to start in March, Village Administrator Greg Thompson told trustees at their meeting Tuesday night.

Thompson said a recent meeting with contractors confirmed the anticipated start for major work will be inn the third week of March

“All the equipment is ordered and on the way,” Thompson said

Three firms are under contract to do the bulk of the work. Heron Construction Co. LLC, based in Virginia with an office in Jordan, N.Y., is general contractor; heating and ventilating contractor is Burns Bros. Contractors of Syracuse, with a Potsdam office; and Watson Electric of Norwood will handle electrical aspects of the job.

The job is expected to be finished by May 2019, with the addition of a typical 45-day period where final inspections and construction details will be finished.

The wastewater treatment plant was built in 1970.

Many of the systems in the plant are outdated and in poor condition. Parts of it are 45 years old.

The last major upgrade was in 1997.