Loading ...Gov. Timothy M. Kaine announced on December 29th, 2009, that signed loan agreements are in place for all of Virginia’s water quality funds received from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and 35 projects are under contract or construction.Virginia is the second state in the nation to complete contracts for water quality projects that received funding from the ARRA.
“This is a great accomplishment that underscores the importance of the federal recovery program,” says Kaine. “Not only are these funds being rapidly deployed to create jobs for Virginians and improve our economy, but they will result in significant improvements to the state’s critical waste water infrastructure.”
Funding to the city of Lynchburg advances the city’s combined sewer overflow cleanup program by at least two years and will result in the elimination of two direct raw sewage overflow locations and a large number of overflow events from the James River.
Read the full article, published December 29, 2009: www.whsv.com/news/headlines/80281162.
