Grants and loans will reduce pollution, improve water quality, improve wastewater infrastructure
Baltimore, MD– The Maryland Board of Public Works approved more than $80 million in funding today to upgrade two wastewater treatment plants and improve sewage infrastructure. The Board is composed of Governor Larry Hogan, Treasurer Nancy K. Kopp and Comptroller Peter Franchot.
“These are smart investments and great news for Maryland communities and citizens of the Chesapeake Bay region. The Maryland Department of the Environment thanks Governor Hogan for his leadership on this environmental priority,” said MDE Secretary Ben Grumbles. “Enhanced clean water infrastructure at the Salisbury and Leonardtown wastewater treatment plants and in the Town of Snow Hill will help us to green and grow the state’s economy and lead in the race to reduce nutrient pollution to protect and restore Chesapeake Bay watersheds.”
Salisbury Wastewater Treatment Plant Biological Nutrient Removal and Enhanced Nutrient Removal Upgrade – Wicomico County
Funding of $60,776,970 – a $34,548,000 Water Quality State Revolving Loan Fund loan, a $1.5 million grant in the form of loan forgiveness from the Water Quality State Revolving Loan Fund, a $13,237,890 Bay Restoration Fund grant and an $11,491,080 Chesapeake Bay Water Quality projects grant to the City of Salisbury — will help fund the design and construction of Biological Nutrient Removal (BNR) and Enhanced Nutrient Removal (ENR) upgrades at the 8.5 million gallons per day Salisbury Wastewater Treatment Plant. After these and other upgrades, the facility will reduce its nitrogen discharge by 83.3 percent and its phosphorus discharge by 85 percent, significantly reducing the amount of nutrients discharged to the Wicomico River and ultimately the Chesapeake Bay. Excessive amounts of nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus lead to lowered levels of oxygen needed to support aquatic life in waterways, including the Chesapeake Bay. Enhanced Nutrient Removal upgrades of the state’s major wastewater treatment plants are a critical component of Maryland’s Phase II Watershed Implementation Plan. This project is part of the Corrective Action Plan to achieve ENR discharge levels required under an amended consent order between MDE and the City of Salisbury.
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8 comments:
Having been educated in wastewater treatment , I find this rather funny.
We have spent millions on this facility in the bury. We certainly should have gotten to this level of removal in the past.
The Perdue Plant needs attention as it still has some issues with discharge.
Here we go again , it's for the Bay(not the children).
So, are we again going to use this money to hire a bunch of shysters to build a Rube Goldberg plant that won't work and cross out the warranty clause like we did last time?
wonder what the mare is goin to do with the money
So where does the nitrogen and the phosphorous that is removed go? It certainly doesn't magically disappear.
hey 8:05
it's recycled , didn't you know , put into fertilizer , back on the land.
Clowns running the city and clowns running the wastewater plant... amazing what people don't know that goes on there
8:15, This is 8:05 it was kind of a rhetorical question. The point being that you are correct the phosphorous and nitrogen are recycled as fertilizer which according to the greens then works its way into our streams and rivers. So if the greens are correct it would seem we are spending a lot of money to do nothing.
Some of the nitrogen is gassed off but all phosphorus will be in what ever magical process to hold sludge prior to just dumping on the ground. Maybe another above ground sludge pool is in Salisbury's future.
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