From the January 2004 issue

Clean Water Projects Funded with $36 Million

A total of $36 million in state financing is being dedicated for clean water projects in 12 New York State communities. Most projects are either well underway or scheduled to be completed within the next year. Funds are provided through the New York Drinking and Clean Water State Revolving Funds (SRFs).

The SRFs help public water suppliers finance needed water and sewer infrastructure improvements by offering grants (for drinking water only); short-term, interest-free loans; long-term, interest-free loans, and low-interest-rate loans.

Administered by the Environmental Facilities Corporation (EFC) and the State Department of Health, the Drinking Water SRF has provided more than $1.2 billion for drinking water improvement projects across the state. The Clean Water SRF is administered by EFC and DEC, and has provided communities with a total of $9.6 billion for projects that prevent water pollution. Recently announced grants and loans include the following:

Drinking Water SRF, State Grant

Town of Middletown, Delaware County: $359,000 for a water supply well and storage tank, and distribution system upgrades

Short-term, Interest-free Loan

Village of Lake George, Warren County: $861,000 to replace an undersized water storage facility and upgrade the distribution system

Clean Water SRF, Short-term, Interest-free loans

Town of North Hempstead, Nassau County: $3.3 million to improve the Belgrave Water Pollution Control District's wastewater treatment plant to comply with state requirements to reduce nitrogen discharge to Long Island Sound

Town of Duanesburg, Schenectady County: $4.8 million for wastewater collection and treatment systems for the Mariaville Lake Sewer District No.2

Rockland County: $15 million to build wastewater collection systems within the Rockland Sewer District No. 1 Western Ramapo area to protect aquifer water quality

Village of Saranac Lake, Essex and Franklin counties: $3.4 million to upgrade the sewer collection and transmission system, upgrade a major sewage pump station and install monitoring devices, all of which will protect the Saranac River

Long-term, Interest-free Loans

SRFs help public water suppliers finance
needed water and sewer improvements

Town of Plattsburgh, Clinton County: $494,231 to build collection sewers, a pump station and a force main for the Wallace Hill Sewer District No. 3, replacing individual on-site residential septic systems

Waterloo, Seneca County: $2.95 million for a wastewater collection system to serve the Town of Waterloo Route 5 and 20 Sewer District, replacing failed individual on-site wastewater disposal systems

Teatown Lake Reservation, Inc., Westchester County: $1.04 million to acquire land to protect the Croton Reservoir, which serves as a drinking water supply for New York City and the Hudson River Estuary

Village of Theresa, Jefferson County: $368,900 for a wastewater treatment plant facility upgrade and pumping station improvements to protect the Indian River

Town of Newfane, Niagara County: $501,128 to modify the wastewater treatment plant to protect Lake Ontario

Long-term, Low-interest Loan

City of Glen Cove, Nassau County: $3 million (with an interest rate of 2.01 percent) for remediation of the Li Tungsten Low Level Radioactive Waste Site