Pittsburgh 水务获1360万美元 PENNVEST 低息贷款：将更换约600个老化集水井
位于宾夕法尼亚州阿勒格尼县的 Pittsburgh 市，宾夕法尼亚州基础设施投资局（PENNVEST）10月21日召开董事会，通过向 Pittsburgh 水务和下水道管理局（PWSA）发放1360万美元低息贷款，用于更换全市约600个集水井。
据州参议员 Jay Costa、Lindsey Williams 和 Wayne Fontana 联合发布的公告，PWSA 计划把现有的敞口式井口换成标准13型格栅结构，减少固体和漂浮垃圾被冲进下水道的数量。PWSA 在服务区内共有约2.26万个集水井和进水口，不少已超过使用寿命、正在失效，待修积压还在逐年增加；这批待换设施所在的下水道系统已有约100年历史。项目服务10.4万多户居民客户、覆盖人口约30.76万，该地区家庭收入中位数低于全州中位数。
公告指出，这笔低息贷款在整个贷款期内相当于提供约770万美元的补助价值；如果没有延长期限的低息安排，用户水费预计还要多涨约1%。Fontana 表示，自他推动的允许地方水务机构使用州资金的法律2017年生效以来，已有超过6亿美元的州补助和贷款投入阿勒格尼县的饮用水和污水基础设施。Williams 表示，更换老化集水井可以保护路面、减少积水和滑坡，也让洪水不再倒灌进居民地下室。Costa 表示，更换这些老化集水井对保持基础设施更新、保障社区安全非常重要。
（GSM 据宾夕法尼亚州参议院民主党团公告）
Pittsburgh Water Awarded $13.6 Million PENNVEST Loan: About 600 Aging Catch Basins to Be Replaced
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania — The Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority (PENNVEST) voted at its board meeting on October 21 to award a $13.6 million low-interest loan to the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority (PWSA) in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, to replace approximately 600 catch basins across the city.
According to a joint announcement by state Senators Jay Costa, Lindsey Williams and Wayne Fontana, PWSA will replace existing open-throat basins with standard Type 13 grate structures, limiting the debris, including solids and floatables, conveyed to the sewer. PWSA owns approximately 22,600 catch basins and inlets in its service area, many beyond their service life and failing, with a significant backlog of known issues; the sewer infrastructure to be replaced is approximately 100 years old. The system serves 104,017 residential customers with a population of 307,632, in an area whose median household income is below the state median.
The announcement said the low-interest loan will provide a grant equivalent of about $7.7 million over the life of the loan, and that without the extended term, user fees would be expected to increase by an additional one percent. Fontana said that since his legislation allowing local municipal water authorities to access state funding became law in 2017, over $600 million in grants and loans have come to Allegheny County for drinking water and wastewater infrastructure. Williams said replacing the aging basins will protect roadways, eliminate ponding water, reduce landslides and keep flooding out of basements. (GSM, based on the Pennsylvania Senate Democrats' announcement)
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