WIFIA PROGRAM The Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) program accelerates investment in our nation's water :nfrastructure by providing long-term, low-cost supplemental loans for regionally and nationally significant projects. GEORGETOWN WET WEATHER TREATMENT STATION BORROWER: King County LOCATION; King County, Washington WIFIA LOAN AMOUNT: $134.5 million TOTAL WIFIA PROJECT COSTS: $275 million POPULATION SERVED BY PROJECT: 175,000 people NUMBER OF JOBS CREATED: 1,400 jobs Credit: King County and the Miller Hull and Berger Partnership PROJECT DESCRIPTION King County will construct a new Wet Weather Treatment Station using high-rate clarification, conveyance pipelines, and outfall structure to treat and convey combined sewer overflows prior to being discharged into the Lower Duwamish Waterway. When constructed, the station can treat up to 70 million gallons of combined rain and wastewater a day that would otherwise have discharged directly to the Duwamish without treatment during storm events. This project is designed to control two existing combined sewer overflows to meet the Washington State control standard. PROJECT BENEFITS • Designed to reduce over 95 percent of untreated wastewater and stormwater entering the Duwamish River by controlling two existing combined sewer overflows. • Redevelops a Brownfields site. • Saves King County up to $32 million from financing with a WIFIA loan compared to a bond issuance. • Creates 1,400 jobs and job-training opportunities during design, construction, and operation. £% United States Environmental Protection kl m % Agency WEBSITE: www.epa.gov/wifia EMAIL: wifia@EPA.gov ------- |