WIFIA

PROGRAM
The Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA)
program accelerates investment in our nation's water
infrastructure by providing long-term, low-cost supplemental
loans for regionally and nationally significant projects.
CITY OF SEATTLE
PROJECT NAME Ship Canal Water Quality Project
LOCATION: Seattle, WA
INVITED WIFIA LOAN AMOUNT $197 million
POPULATION SERVED BY THE PROJECT: 175,000
PROJECT TYPE: Wastewater
PROJECT DESCRIPTION : The Ship Canal Water Quality Project will build an offline storage tunnel to
reduce the number and volume of Combined Sewer Overflows (CSO) that discharge into the Lake
Washington Ship Canal from Ballard, Fremont, Wallingford, and north Queen Anne. The project includes
a 29-million gallon offline storage tunnel, six diversion structures for diverting influent combined sewage
away from existing CSO outfalls to the tunnel, five drop structures to convey combined sewage into the
storage tunnel, and odor control systems. The purpose of this project is to partially fulfill the objective of
the County's Consent Decree Civil Action. This project will control seven uncontrolled outfalls to prevent
more than 60 million gallons of raw sewage and polluted stormwater runoff from overflowing into the
waterbody each year.
Selected borrowers must apply for a WIFIA loan, pass a final creditworthiness assessment, negotiate a
mutually agreeable term sheet, and execute a credit agreement to receive WIFIA financing. An invitation
to apply indicates that EPA believes the selected projects will be able to attain WIFIA loans.
FY 2018 SELECTION ROUND
TOTAL LOAN AMOUNT: $5 billion to
public and private entities
TOTAL WATER INFRASTRUCTURE
INVESTMENT SUPPORTED:
Over $10 billion
NUMBER OF PEOPLE IMPACTED:
22 million in 16 states and Washington, D.C.
NUMBER OF PROJECTS SELECTED: 39
United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
WEBSITE: www.epa.gov/wifia
EMAIL: wifia@EPA.gov

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