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June 22, 2009
Kansas is Getting Funding for Water Improvements
$54 million in Federal stimulus funds are making there way to Kansas for improvements in water.
Pottawatomie County putting $1.3 million into improvements at a treatment plant to remove iron from drinking water.
Holton,KS is using $164,000 for native plants and a rain garden to control erosion in a storm water drainage area.
Topeka (pictured)is starting a $55,000 study to determine if a wastewater treatment facility can use "green" technology to conserve energy.
The Center for Child Development at Kansas State University is getting $454,000 for installation of a porous pavement to harvest rainfall.
El Dorado,KS is using $200,000 to the install a hydroelectric generator on a city water pipe to generate about 100 kilowatts of energy for use at a water treatment plant.
"This funding will not only help create much-needed jobs but will have a major impact on communities in need of these important infrastructure projects," said Rod Bremby, secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
Kerry Wedel, chief of the state water bureau's watershed management section, said 20 percent of the federal financing was earmarked for green infrastructure, water and energy-efficiency improvements.
"It's basically practices that maintain or restore natural hydrology," Wedel said.
Ron Geisler, Kansas Department of Health and Environment water bureau's chief of municipal programs, said the largest project made possible by economic stimulus legislation was a $15.6 million endeavor in Johnson County, for construction of an improved facility to treat sludge at the current wastewater treatment plant, as reported by The Topeka Capital-Journal.
Posted by Stephen Betheil at June 22, 2009 03:44 PM
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