February 24, 2009
Tuesday Headlines: Hundreds of Millions Needed for Bay City, Mich.
Officials in Bay City, Michigan say it would take hundreds of millions of dollars to overhaul the city’s aging water and sewer infrastructure. As a result, local officials have begun discussing discussing the challenges, which include water main breaks, sewage overflows, beach closings and bacteria in the water.
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Pamlico County, North Carolina commissioners will discuss applying for federal stimulus grant money toward more than $2 million worth of planned water system improvements.
In Ohio, the city of Akron will have to pay $1 million in added costs for the city’s first project to curtail its combined sewer overflows. It is part of Akron’s $370 million plan to eliminate combined sewers that pollute the Cuyahoga and Little Cuyahoga rivers and the Ohio & Erie Canal after heavy rains.
Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission officials say a blocked sewer line blocked sent an overflow of 10,700 gallons of untreated wastewater into a wooded area in Laurel, Maryland.
In Columbus, Ohio, a water main break that sent water gushing into the air early Tuesday prompted the closure of a elementary school. The cold temperatures caused the water to freeze as it hit trees and power lines. There was also ice on the street.
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