The city of Springfield will receive $16.2 million to replace the Spring Branch trunk sewer line on the northwest side of town and replace an outdated ozone generator used to disinfect water at the Southwest Wastewater Treatment Plant, according to Steve Meyer, assistant director of public works.
Meyer said $3 million of the $16.2 million will be federal stimulus funds and the remaining $13.2 million will be a 20-year loan from the state’s revolving fund.
At the Southwest Wastewater Treatment Plant, money from the stimulus funds and state loan will be spent on a 24-month project to build a new ozone generator, expanding the facility’s capacity to disinfect up to 100 million gallons of treated water each day. Currently, the facility is limited to 60 million gallons, Meyer said.
“It’s a significant increase in what we can disinfect and treat,” Meyer said. “It will help up with our wet water flows and our peak flows.”