The Oklahoma City Water Utilities Trust in early April approved $653 million in capital funding toward improving the city's water and wastewater systems over the next five years. The plan, which will be financed through rate increases, includes $488 million in spending for water-delivery and water-treatment projects, with the remaining funding allocated for wastewater collection and treatment upgrades.
A landmark agreement between the New York State Dept. of Environmental Conservation and the New York City Dept. of Environmental Protection has green-lighted $3.8 billion in funding over the next 18 years to address combined-sewer overflows, or CSOs.
In December, the Portland Water Bureau granted final approval to an estimated $27.5 million-$29.5 million project that involves modifications to a water intake tower in the Bull Run Reservoir, the Oregon city’s primary supply.
Sue Bednarz Interior view of Portlands $464-million East Side Big Pipe project. For officials in Portland, Ore., the Big Pipe project is no longer a dream. The recently completed $1.4-billion, 20-year combined sewer overflow (CSO) control program was implemented in response to an Oregon Dept. of Environmental Quality order to reduce significantly CSO events by December 2011. Thanks to large-diameter underground tunnels installed along the Columbia Slough and on both sides of the Willamette River, the city now meets the overflow frequency criteria set forth in 1991 by the DEQ. Annual CSO volume to the Columbia Slough and the Willamette