A $5.8 million grant awarded to the Prichard water and sewer system will “jump-start” efforts to turn around that troubled utility, but the court-appointed expert now in charge said much work remains.
awarded to the Prichard water and sewer system will “jump-start” efforts to turn around that troubled utility, but the court-appointed expert now in charge said much work remains.
Part of the funds will be used to remove the water storage tank behind the Prichard Water Works & Sewer Board office and upgrade four other storage tanks.50,000 feet of new piping on Love Joy Loop.Installing monitoring and control devices on both treatment plants. The Department of Environmental Management has three pots of federal dollars used to aid local water systems – money from the pandemic-era American Rescue Plan Act, money from an infrastructure spending bill signed by President Joe Biden and a revolving loan fund.
Young, who will address the grant during at 2 p.m. Thursday meeting of the Prichard Citizens Advisory Council, agreed that fixing and replacing pipes is important – especially since the system in some months loses water to leaks than it uses. A study performed last year inidcated that water leaks were costing the system about $75,000 a month.
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