ALBANY – Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Tuesday that several communities in the Hudson Valley will receive grants for critical water infrastructure projects, including the first funding awarded through the Clean Water, Clean Air, and Green Jobs Environmental Bond Act of 2022.
The grants announced include nearly $450 million statewide awarded through the state’s Water Infrastructure Improvement (WIIA) and Intermunicipal Grant (IMG) programs. Funding this round is made possible with $249 million from the governor’s historic commitment to water quality infrastructure, and $200 million from the Environmental Bond Act.
The WIIA and IMG programs were named as tools in the voter-approved Bond Act to help leverage funding for water quality and resilient infrastructure improvements.
Hudson Valley grants include $5 million for the Town of East Fishkill, whose supervisor, Nicholas D’Allesandro said the funds will be used to tie water systems together.
“This is a project we submitted to interconnect up to five different water systems in our town and some of the systems have water quality issues like PFAS and PFOA, very bad chemicals,” he said.
The City of Newburgh will receive $8.9 million for a new combined sewer control facility, said Mayor Torrance Harvey.
“We are going to be able to remove floatables and disinfect the wastewater during the wet weather storm events, reduce and combine sewer overflows and improving water quality of the Hudson River,” he said.
Newburgh has already received a $17 million grant toward the project.
| Program | Grant Source | Applicant | Project Name | County | Grant Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DW WIIA | WIIA | Dutchess County Water and Wastewater Authority | Shreiber Groundwater Supply Evaluation | Dutchess | $2,693,280 |
| DW WIIA | WIIA | East Fishkill, Town of | Water Supply | Dutchess | $5,000,000 |
| CW WIIA | Bond Act | Liberty, Village of | Wastewater Treatment Plant Phase 2 Upgrade – Solids Processing and Handling | Sullivan | $2,474,922 |
| DW WIIA | Bond Act | Middletown, City of | Raw Water Main Phase 1A-Kinch Pond | Orange | $5,000,000 |
| CW WIIA | WIIA | Millbrook, Village of | Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrade | Dutchess | $1,837,500 |
| CW WIIA | Bond Act | Newburgh, City of | Combined Sewer Control Facility | Orange | $8,882,994 |
| CW WIIA | Bond Act | Newburgh, Town of | Meadow Hill Sewer I&I Remediation Project | Orange | $1,025,000 |
| CW WIIA | WIIA | North Castle, Town of | Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrade | Westchester | $780,325 |
| DW WIIA | Bond Act | Ossining, Village of | Indian Brook Water Treatment Plant | Westchester | $5,000,000 |
| CW WIIA | WIIA | Pawling, Village of | MTA Trunk Sewer Replacement | Dutchess | $508,100 |
| CW WIIA | Bond Act | Port Chester, Village of | Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation Phase II | Westchester | $2,466,424 |
| DW WIIA | ECWIIA | Somers, Town of | Business-Historic Preservation District Water Main | Westchester | $1,747,588 |
| CW WIIA | WIIA | Thompson, Town of | Emerald Green Pump Station 1-3 Improvements and Generator Installation Project | Sullivan | $805,003 |
| DW WIIA | Bond Act | Wallkill, Town of | Rykowski Water Treatment Plant & Well Field Expansion | Orange | $5,000,000 |
| CW WIIA | WIIA | Wawayanda, Town of | Robinn Meadows STP Disinfection Project | Orange | $108,075 |
| CW WIIA | Bond Act | Westchester County | Blind Brook Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrade Process Equipment Improvements (PEI) Phase 1 | Westchester | $6,050,000 |
| DW IMG | Bond Act | Westchester Joint Water Works | Rye Lake Water Filtration Plant | Westchester | $30,000,000 |
| DW WIIA | Bond Act | Yonkers, City of | 30-Inch Water Main Replacement Under Saw Mill River Parkway at Wendover Road | Westchester | $2,593,128 |
