South Sioux gets grant for sewage crossing
Posted: Wednesday, December 26, 2007
SOUTH SIOUX CITY -- The city of South Sioux City got $492,000 from Congress last week for a second pipe to carry city sewage across the Missouri River to the wastewater treatment plant in Sioux City. The funding came in the year-end omnibus appropriations bill.
Work on the crossing is expected to be completed this summer.
City Administrator Lance Hedquist said the funding is "extremely important as sewage treatment plant renovations have already greatly increased costs to sewer users in our community."
The city previously received $385,700 toward the $3.2 million project through a federal, state and tribal assistance grant. The balance of the project being paid for through a state revolving loan fund.
The project is needed because of increasing demands on the city sewer system and the need for an alternative route, a need highlighted several years ago when the only river-crossing sewage pipe broke, dumping raw waste into the Missouri River and causing the city to be fined.
The new sewer line will have added benefits of speeding the industrial sewage into the sewer treatment plant and thus, reducing odor and costs to control odors as well as decreasing operation of the current sewer lift stations as they will be by-passed by the new line.
The sewage system improvement has been an agenda item of the Siouxland Washington Conference for the past three years.
Work on the crossing is expected to be completed this summer.
City Administrator Lance Hedquist said the funding is "extremely important as sewage treatment plant renovations have already greatly increased costs to sewer users in our community."
The city previously received $385,700 toward the $3.2 million project through a federal, state and tribal assistance grant. The balance of the project being paid for through a state revolving loan fund.
The project is needed because of increasing demands on the city sewer system and the need for an alternative route, a need highlighted several years ago when the only river-crossing sewage pipe broke, dumping raw waste into the Missouri River and causing the city to be fined.
The new sewer line will have added benefits of speeding the industrial sewage into the sewer treatment plant and thus, reducing odor and costs to control odors as well as decreasing operation of the current sewer lift stations as they will be by-passed by the new line.
The sewage system improvement has been an agenda item of the Siouxland Washington Conference for the past three years.
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