This $2,500,000 Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Congressionally Mandated Projects program (CFDA 66.202), will fund the Town of Mansfield, MA to implement a project to add per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) treatment for the Dustin/Prescott wells. The project will involve constructing a new building on a concrete slab to house a granular activated carbon PFAS removal system. The anticipated outcomes are the construction...
This $4,000,000 Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Congressionally Mandated Projects program (CFDA 66.202), provides funding to the City of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin to construct a new solar dryer for its wastewater treatment plant. The project will improve and expand the city's existing solids handling operations, replacing aging infrastructure and generating Class A quality biosolids with expanded beneficial reuse applications. Key...
This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Congressionally Mandated Projects program (CFDA 66.202), provides $1,960,000 in funding to the City of Soldotna, Alaska to upgrade the city's biosolids dewatering equipment. The key activities include setting up and operating a temporary mechanical sludge dewatering system, demolishing a portion of the existing control building, constructing a new control building section, installing new process and...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Congressionally Mandated Projects program (CFDA 66.202) provides $1,000,000 in funding to the City of Fairmont, Minnesota. The grant will support professional engineering services for a project to decommission and demolish the existing biosolids storage area and UV building, and construct a new UV disinfection building and a new biosolids building at the city's wastewater treatment facility. The...
This $2,000,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Brownfields Multipurpose, Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup Cooperative Agreements program (CFDA 66.818) will provide funding to the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) to conduct eligible brownfields assessment-related activities in Massachusetts. Specifically, the agreement will support MassDEP's efforts to inventory, characterize, assess, and...
This $1,200,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Congressionally Mandated Projects (CFDA 66.202) program provides funding to the Town of Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA, to implement upgrades to its Lincoln Street Well Water Treatment Facility. The project activities include engineering design, permitting, and bidding for the facility upgrades, which will enable the treatment of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), iron, and manganese...
This $1,250,000 Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Congressionally Mandated Projects program (CFDA 66.202), provides funding to the Eagle Lake Water and Sewer District to implement a project to renew and upgrade its wastewater treatment plant and collection system pumping stations. The key activities to be performed under this award include multiple treatment plant component upgrades, such as sludge treatment and disposal enhancements,...
The Environmental Protection Agency Region 1 awarded a $300,000 Cooperative Agreement to the City of Brockton, Massachusetts under the Brownfields Multipurpose, Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup Cooperative Agreements program (CFDA 66.818). The funding will support cleanup activities at a contaminated former industrial site in Brockton from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024. Specifically, the City will clean up environmental contamination at the former Corcoran Supply Company...
This $596,500 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Congressionally Mandated Projects program (CFDA 66.202) provides funding to the City of Melrose, MA to design and construct improvements to the stormwater management system at Ell Pond Park. The key activities to be performed include the design and construction of stormwater management and treatment infrastructure. The expected outcomes include improved water quality in Ell Pond and enhanced...
This $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Congressionally Mandated Projects program (CFDA 66.202) is funding the design of a system-wide Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) treatment facility for the City of Downey, California. The project aims to address PFAS contamination in the city's local groundwater supply, which is the sole source of the city's drinking water. The award will support the development of construction...