Auburn is continuing to seek funds for its project to limit sewer overflows during heavy rains.
City Council has applied for $5.5 million in funding from the New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation’s Green Resiliency Grant Program for its Combined Sewer Overflow project.
Speaking on FLX Morning with Ted Baker, City Clerk Chuck Mason explained the city’s goals.
“It is an attempt for us to continue to find money to do the combined sewer overflow work that’s going to happen out in the city,” said Mason. “A lot of this work is going to happen in the west end of Auburn to separate the storm sewer system from the sanitary sewer system.”
Mason added that the design phase of the approximately $22 million project is 95% complete and the city is awaiting final approval from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
With its current infrastructure, partially treated wastewater can enter the Owasco River; however, during these events, the city’s drinking water is unaffected as the city gets its water from the lake, not the river.
If everything goes according to plan, Mason is optimistic that the construction phase can begin in either the summer of 2025 or 2026.
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