To help better manage high water events — and prepare for the more intense storms caused by climate change — Philadelphia is in the process of spending hundreds of millions of dollars to beef up its water and sewer systems. Three big Philadelphia Water Department infrastructure projects just received a $25 million boost from the state as it parcels out federal funds from ARPA, the $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill President Biden signed nearly three years ago. The biggest of the grants is $15 million for construction of an effluent pump station at the Northeast Water Pollution Control Plant in Port Richmond. The new facility, which could end up costing a total of $100 million to build, will let the plant accept more sewage and runoff and return clean water to the Delaware River more quickly. The other grants will go toward improving sewers in a flood-prone section of Germantown, and funding upgrades at the Queen Lane Raw Water Pump Station in East Falls. Read more here.
Source: Billy Penn; 1/10/2024