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NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

an and the Portions of the City’s water bodies have been identified as having significant water quality impacts in part Plan) and from combined sewer overflow (CSO) discharges. The Ten-Year Plan provides $760.8 million for the study, jrvice area design and implementation of CSO abatement projects that includes the following; Flushing Bay; Paerdegat Basin; Hunts Point; Alley Creek; Jamaica Bay (26th Ward); and the Gowanus Canal. These include $250 million that the Department is forecasting in State funds, as part of the Clean Water/Clean Air Bond Act of 1996, for various 1, of which water quality improvement projects. The Four-Year Plan provides $698.3 million in total funding for various instruction / water quality imprqvement projects. The 2002 Capital Commitment Plan consists of: $50.1 million for the inmentally continued construction of the Flushing Bay CSO Tank; $78.4 million towards the construction of the Paerdegat selectively Basin CSO Tank; and $36.5 million to alleviate flooding and sewer discharges in the Alley Creek section of irshed that Queens. ;y. In total, I. The Teh-Yeai; Plan has scheduled $ 1.7 billion for the stabilization of wastewater treatment facilities that are in need of system-wide reconstruction to ensure their continued compliance, with mandated permit requirements into the future. These facilities include, the Bowery Bay, Wards Island, 26th W'ard, Tallman Island, Jamaica, and Hunts Point WPCPs and the Spring Creek storm overflow retention facility./The Four-Year Plan includes $1.3 imately 70 billion for plant stabilization projects. The Capital Plan for 2002 includes $200.8 million for improvements at ) the City’s Hunts Point WTP, $143.0 million for improvements in the Jamaica WTP and $111.8 million for improvements 4 drainage in Ward’s Island WTP and sewer The Ten-Year Plan provides $262.2 million for the reconstruction or replacement of individual components at DEP’s sewage treatment facilities required for continued reliable operations. These components encompass placement, valves, pumps, boilers, generators and other mechanical equipment: The Four-Year Plan provides $164.2 million lection and, in funding for this function including $79.9 million for various improvetnents in 2002. grammatic ;placement ' The Ten-Year Plan allocates $178.1 million for the reconstruction of wastewater pumping stations, regulators, economic tide gates, and force mains. The System’s 89 pumping stations are used to convey wastewater over long distances, 103 for the to drain low-lying areas, and to lift flows to WTPs. The Four-Year Plan includes $154.5 million for this function the Coney including $100.5 million forecast in 2002 for improvements to the Avenue V Pumping Station in Brooklyn. ^functions e currently The Ten-Year Plan includes $1.2 billion for consent decree upgrading and construction projects for wat^r pollution control facilities. The largest of these projects is $955.6 million for the continued upgrade of the Newtown Creek WTP to provide full secondary treatment ($2.2 billion total cost). The Department will also complete work t of S652-8 at the North River, Owls Head and Coney Island WTPs. The Four-Year Plan included $874.1 million in funding Boulevard with $ 198.2 million forecast in 2002 for the Newtown Creek WTP upgrade. Island at a The Long Island Sound Study (LISS) is a joint federal-state-local (the states being New York and Connecticut) program to identify the Sound’s major environmental problems and to develop an appropriate management plan. roximately The United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) is the lead agency in the LISS, which has identified million for hypoxia, or low levels of dissolved oxygen, as the issue of greatest concern in the Long Island Sound. Hypoxia is the result of a chain reaction beginning with high levels of nutrients, largely nitrogen. In addition to natural sources, other nutrient sources include: effluent from sewage treatment plants, storm water fun-off carrying lawn and agricultural fertilizers, organic materials, and air-deposited nitrate substances. The first phase of the Study has been completed and a Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan has been adopted by the participants n-overflow to reverse the adverse impacts associated with hypoxia in the Long Island Sound. The City has entered info s and three agreements as part of its State Pollution Discharge Elimination System (SPDES) permits to undertake certain ion gallons measures to control nitrogen levels. The Ten-Year Plan includes $144.2 million for the Department’s Biological Vastewater Nutrient Removal (BNR) pfogram, which provides for the retrofitting of its facilities and other related projects leasts $3.5 to reduce the amount of nitrogen discharged into New York Harbor, Jamaica Bay and the Long Island Sound. The Four-Year Plan consists of $ 111.2 million for this function. ;

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