Maine awards $22M to upgrade wastewater facilities across the state
Twenty wastewater treatment facilities serving 27 Maine communities have been awarded a total of $22 million for upgrades through the Maine Jobs & Recovery Plan, Gov. Janet Mills announced.
“Maintaining our water and sewer infrastructure across the state of Maine is critical to preserving our clean water, to protecting public health, and to reducing costs for taxpayers,” Mills said during a Monday visit to Rumford.
"These new grants will help water and sewer districts across the state speed up maintenance projects for the next four years, creating jobs, cutting costs, and preserving service for the communities that rely on them."
Mills announced the one-time grants, administered by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, at the Rumford Town Hall. The Rumford-Mexico Sewerage District was awarded a $1 million grant to make improvements to its wastewater treatment facility. Upgrades there will preserve service to Rumford. Mexico and Dixfield, while also reducing discharges into the Androscoggin River.
“These funds will ensure that the District is able to help protect the Androscoggin River watershed and provide affordable and reliable wastewater services to the residents and businesses of the Rumford, Mexico and Dixfield communities well into the future,” said Roland M. Arsenault, superintendent of the Rumford-Mexico Sewerage District.
Over the next four years, the grants will support projects that repair or replace wastewater infrastructure to improve operations, reliability, resiliency to climate effects, environmental impact and economic development.
Recipients and amounts
- Anson-Madison Sanitary District, $2.278 million
- Biddeford, $1 million
- Greater Augusta Utility District (two awards), $2 million
- Calais, $2 million
- Ellsworth, $2 million
- Eagle Lake Water & Sewer District, $1 million
- Hartland, $1 million
- Houlton Water Co., $1 million
- Livermore Falls, $1 million
- Loring Development Authority, $167,950
- Mapleton Sewer District, $917,235
- Millinocket, $800,000
- Old Town, $733,020
- Pittsfield, $498,210
- Rockport, $1 million
- Rumford-Mexico Sewerage District, $1 million
- Stonington Sanitary District (two awards), $403,510
- Van Buren, $463,509
- Machias, $893,589
- Winterport Water District, $553,746
The $22 million comes on top of $20 million in grant funding to 13 communities announced last week, for infrastructure investments to guard against flooding and other effects of climate change.
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