New York’s Environmental Facilities Corporation Board of Directors (EFC) has approved $135 million for water and sewer projects across the state that include replacing lead service lines and removing dangerous contaminants from drinking water.
Funding sources include $19 million federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) grant for the Town of Southampton’s new wastewater collection system and treatment plant in Riverside, which the state said will help safeguard the Peconic Estuary — Long Island’s only aquifer system.
The EFC board also approved a $2 million state grant under New York’s $100 million Lead Infrastructure Forgiveness and Transformation (LIFT) and the IIJA to replace lead service lines in the Southern Tier’s Village of Bath.
The Village of Bath project is part of a broader $469 million statewide effort to eliminate lead from drinking water. Bath is one of 13 communities receiving loan forgiveness grants to help cover costs not fully paid for by federal grants.
Other projects receiving funding include:
- $35 million in State and federal grants and financing for two sanitary sewer upgrade projects in the Village of Port Chester.
- $15.7 million in State and federal grants and financing for the planning, design, and construction of a sewer collection system for the Hamlet of Warnerville.
- A $10.8 million grant and financing package for upgrades at the wastewater treatment plant in the Village of Moravia in Central New York.
- An $8 million state grant and financing package for Phase 1A of the Kinch Pond raw water transmission main replacement in Middletown.
- A $5 million state grant for the formation of the North End Water District in Pomfret, including installation of approximately 74,000 linear feet of water mains, two new 100,000-gallon water storage tanks, 2 pump stations and appurtenances such as hydrants, valves and meters.
- A $5 million state grant for the Water Authority of Great Neck North to install granular activated carbon and ion exchange treatment systems for the removal of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from the wells at the community drive facility.
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