April 17, 2009
Friday Headlines: NYT Documents Deteriorationg Water Infrastructure
The New York Times has a story today on how it is becoming more difficult for municipalities across the country to ignore their aging water infrastructure as the pipes break at an increasing frequency. Here is the most relevant from the quote the story.
The new federal stimulus law provides $6 billion for water projects, with $2 billion of that directed to drinking water systems. But that money is only, well, a drop in the bucket: a report released last month by the E.P.A. estimated that the nation’s drinking water systems require an investment of $334.8 billion over the next two decades, with most of the money needed to improve transmission and distribution systems.
Headlines
$56.5 million in federal stimulus money from the Bureau of Reclamation will be used to build the second phase of the Lewis & Clark water treatment plant near Vermillion, South Dakota.
The state of Michigan is receiving $236 million under the economic stimulus plan to upgrade municipal water and sewer systems as part of a long-range effort to restore the Great Lakes.
A break in an old water main on South Dixie Highway in West Palm Beach, Florida is causing traffic detours this afternoon as crews complete repairs.
About one million gallons of water burst through the a broken water main drowning out an estimated $50,000 of lunch business across Estero Island in Southwest Florida.
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Alamosa, Colorado
Clarksdale, Arizona
Salisbury, Maryland
Sedona, Arizona
