环保署批1.09亿美元WIFIA贷款 助Honolulu建卡拉埃洛亚海水淡化厂 日供饮用水170万加仑
位于夏威夷州檀香山县的檀香山市（市县合一），美国环境保护署（EPA）10月16日宣布，向Honolulu供水局（Honolulu Board of Water Supply）提供一笔1.09亿美元的《水基础设施融资与创新法》（WIFIA）贷款，支持其在欧胡岛卡拉埃洛亚（Kalaeloa）建设大型反渗透海水淡化厂。工厂建成后每天可为岛上居民提供170万加仑饮用水，并减轻地下含水层的取水压力。
据环保署发布，这笔融资用于卡拉埃洛亚海水淡化设施项目，内容除淡化厂主体外，还包括副产物处置设施、再生水管线与输水管线。项目将为供水局服务区内珍珠港以西、Honolulu以西较干旱的中欧胡地区增加一处替代饮用水源，提高供水可靠性、降低对地下含水层的依赖。
环保署水务助理署长杰斯·克雷默（Jess Kramer）表示，各地社区正面对老旧管道更换、服务升级与新水源开发等水基础设施挑战，WIFIA贷款是帮助社区投资供水设施、保护公共健康的融资工具，环保署乐见Honolulu用这笔贷款建起可靠、可再生的饮用水源。Honolulu供水局经理兼总工程师欧内斯特·刘（Ernest Lau）表示，这笔融资将协助建成岛上社区的第一座海水淡化设施。
融资安排上，供水局将这笔贷款设为次级留置权，偿付顺序排在其高级留置权债券之后，并在施工期间递延偿还本金，以减轻对用户水费的影响。环保署称，WIFIA项目目前可向各地供水系统提供最高110亿美元融资、另有30亿美元供各州基础设施融资机构使用，现正接受意向书。WIFIA由国会2014年立法设立、由环保署管理。
EPA Announces $109 Million WIFIA Loan for Honolulu Seawater Desalination Plant Delivering 1.7 Million Gallons a Day
Honolulu is a city in Honolulu County, Hawaii (a consolidated city-county). The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on October 16 a $109 million Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) loan to the Honolulu Board of Water Supply, which serves parts of Oahu, Hawaii. The loan will help the Board design and build a large-scale reverse osmosis seawater desalination plant that will provide 1.7 million gallons of water each day to island residents while decreasing pressure on groundwater aquifers.
According to the EPA, the financing supports the Board's Kalaeloa Seawater Desalination Facility Project, which also includes byproduct disposal facilities, a recycled water pipeline and transmission lines. The project will establish an alternative drinking water source and strengthen water resources in central Oahu for the more arid district the Board serves, west of Honolulu and Pearl Harbor.
EPA Assistant Administrator for Water Jess Kramer said communities across the country face water infrastructure challenges ranging from replacing old pipes and pumps to bringing new sources of water online, and that the agency is thrilled Honolulu is using the loan to create a reliable and renewable source of drinking water. Ernest Lau, manager and chief engineer of the Honolulu Board of Water Supply, said the financing will assist in constructing the first seawater desalination facility for the island community.
The Board is making the loan a subordinate lien, ranking second to its senior lien bonds, and will defer principal payments during construction to reduce the impact on ratepayers, the EPA said. Up to $11 billion in WIFIA funding is available to water systems and another $3 billion to state infrastructure financing authorities, and the agency is currently accepting letters of interest. The WIFIA program was established by the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 2014 and is administered by the EPA.
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图片来源：图：欧胡岛西南岸卡拉埃洛亚一带航拍，海水淡化厂将建于此区（资料图）。图片来源：Accipitre 摄，经 Wikimedia Commons，CC BY 4.0。Photo: Aerial view of the Kalaeloa area on Oahu's southwest coast, where the desalination facility will be built (file photo). Credit: Accipitre via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.
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