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This effort will replace chronically failing six-inch water mains in Brooklyn and Queens (Manhattan and the Sl Bronx are largely completed and six-inch replacements in Staten Island are outside the years of this Plan) and

I will include $50.0 million for trunk main extension in the former Jamaica Water Supply Company service area in Queens. ; H

The Ten-Year Plan provides an overall total of $584.6 million for projects in the upstate watershed, of which $515.4 million is scheduled for the first four years. DEP plans to commit $204.8 million for the reconstruction of various City-owned dams. The City will spend $87.7 million in the Ten-Year Plan to acquire environmentally sensitive land in the watershed region. In total, the City will spend approximately $260 million to selectively t acquire land, either through outright purchase or through conservation easements, within the watershed that contains streams, wetlands, floodplains and other areas that are critical to maintaining high water quality. In total, the City has acquired or entered into option agreements to acquire over 30,000 acres in the watershed.

Sewers / DEP operates and maintains over 6,400 miles of sanitary, storm and combined sewers. Approximately 70 Hill percent of the existing system is composed of combined sewers that carry both storm and wastewater to the City’s 14 wastewater treatment plants for treatment. The sewage collection system, which is divided into 14 drainage iif areks, also includes 131,243 catch basins and approximately 5,000 seepage basins to prevent flooding and sewer backups. / ( ’li! For the Sewer program, the Ten-Year Capital Plan allocates a total of $1.2 billion for the replacement, construction and expansion of approximately 602 miles of the City’s sewer system to improve the collection and transport of storm and wastewater. The Ten-Year Capital Strategy provide.s $40.4 million for the programmatic replacement and reconstruction of deteriorating sewers Citywide. $46.7 million is scheduled for the replacement and augmentation of sewers to enhance capacity where required by population increases and economic developinent projects. As required by the State’s Clean Water Act, $9.0 million is provided in 2003 for the construction df separate storm and sanitary sewers and the abatement of combined sewer overflows in the Coney Island drainage area. $522.3 million is allocated for the replacement of sewers experiencing chronic malfunctions that may cause flooding or potential health hazards. The System will be extended into new areas that arc currently underserved, primarily in Queens and Staten Island, for $553.3 million.

During the Four-Year Capital Plan, approximately 329 miles of sewers will be replaced at a cost of $652.8 million. Major projects include the installation of new sewers in the Springfield Gardens / Rockaway Boulevard i area of Queens at a cost of $53.2 million and the installation of new sewers in Vernon Avenue, Staten Island at a /'Cost of $11.61 million. I I ■ i

III 2002, the plan forecasts $247.1 million in spending for the replacement and construction of approximately 112 miles of sewers, including $18.0 million for sewers in Rockaway Boulevard, Queens and $9.4 million for sewers in Chester Avenue in Staten Island.

Whs/ewarer Treatment I DEP’s Bureau of Wastewater Treatment operates 14 wastewater treatment plants (WTPs), one storm-overflow retention facility, 89 wastewater pumping stations, nine laboratories, eight sludge dewatering facilities and three inner-harbor sludge transport vessels. On average each day, these facilities treat approximately 1.3 billion gallons of dry-weather sewage and handle approximately 1,200 wet-tons of sludge. The Ten-Year Plan for Wastewater Treatment projects is $4.3 billion', including $250.0 million of State funds. The Four-Year Plan forecasts $3.5 billion in funding for Wastewater Treatment projects including $100 million in State funds.

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