The Ouray City Council tabled a decision Monday on whether to explore rehabilitating its current sewer lagoons rather than building a new mechanical treatment plant while it waits to find out the environmental standards the state will impose on the city.

Councilors were scheduled to vote on whether to spend $10,000 to have Glenwood Springs engineering firm JVA perform an in-depth analysis of upgrading the lagoons as part of an update to the city’s wastewater treatment facility master plan. The ...