纽约州拨款逾2.49亿美元支持181个水质保护项目：逾2.06亿美元投向环境正义社区
纽约州州长凯西·霍楚尔（Kathy Hochul）10月30日宣布，纽约州将拨款逾2.49亿美元，支持全州181个水质保护项目。这批拨款将用于保护饮用水、更新老化的供水基础设施、减少有害藻华的成因，并改善各地社区的水生与陆生栖息地；其中逾2.06亿美元将投向承受环境污染影响程度较高的环境正义社区。
本轮拨款的主体是州环境保护厅（DEC）的水质改善项目（WQIP）：逾2.46亿美元支持139个项目，覆盖市政污水处理升级、饮用水源保护用地收购、盐仓建设与道路用盐削减、大坝安全修复、水生通道恢复与鱼类野生动物栖息地修复等方向。另有逾290万美元通过非农业非点源与市政雨水系统规划拨款（NPG）支持42个项目，用于涵管更换、绿色基础设施与雨水管理规划等前期工作。
重点项目包括：卡尤加县（Cayuga County）水务与污水管理局获1000万美元，沿 Cayuga Lake 在 Ledyard 与 Genoa 两镇铺设约九英里低压卫生下水道，接入 Aurora 村污水处理厂；尼亚加拉瀑布市水务局获1000万美元升级污水处理工艺；Elizabethtown 镇获1000万美元新建污水处理厂；Peekskill 市获250万美元修复 Lower Wiccopee 大坝，该水库是当地饮用水源。63笔 WQIP 与 NPG 拨款、合计约1.22亿美元，将投向过去五年出现过有害藻华的水域。另有1700万美元清洁水基础设施资金用于道路用盐削减，包括盐水制备与储罐、雪犁活刃刀片与车载盐水喷洒设备等。
霍楚尔表示，获得清洁水是基本人权，其政府已作出创纪录的水质投资，本轮拨款将帮助地方社区升级关键基础设施、增强应对强天气洪水的韧性，并保护全州的水质与栖息地。DEC 厅长 Amanda Lefton 表示，这批近3亿美元的拨款将降低洪水风险、保护饮用水与水生栖息地。州参议员 Pete Harckham 指出，其中250万美元用于加固 Peekskill 饮用水源 Wiccopee 水库的大坝与溢洪道，凸显这类投资对居民安全与市政经济的重要性。
据州长办公室介绍，霍楚尔任内纽约州已投入逾100亿美元用于水利基础设施与清洁水项目；已通过的2027财年预算提出37.5亿美元水利基础设施投资计划，自2021年以来清洁水投入累计达106亿美元。水质改善项目资金主要来自2022年《清洁水、清洁空气与绿色就业环境债券法》、环境保护基金与州清洁水基础设施资金。
New York Awards More Than $249 Million to 181 Water Quality Projects: Over $206 Million for Environmental Justice Communities
New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced on October 30 that the state will award more than $249 million in grants to 181 water quality protection projects across New York. The grants will protect drinking water, update aging water infrastructure, reduce contributors to harmful algal blooms and improve aquatic and terrestrial habitat in communities statewide, with more than $206 million supporting environmental justice communities that may be disproportionately impacted by environmental pollution.
The bulk of the funding, more than $246 million, will support 139 projects through the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Water Quality Improvement Project (WQIP) program, which funds municipal wastewater treatment upgrades, land acquisition for source water protection, salt storage and road salt reduction, dam safety repair, aquatic connectivity restoration and habitat restoration. Another $2.9 million-plus will support 42 projects through DEC's Non-Agricultural Nonpoint Source and Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System Planning Grant (NPG) program, covering early planning work such as culvert replacement and green infrastructure.
Highlighted projects include $10 million for the Cayuga County Water and Sewer Authority to install a low-pressure sanitary sewer system along nine miles of Cayuga Lake in the towns of Ledyard and Genoa, connecting homes now using failing septic systems to the Village of Aurora wastewater treatment plant; $10 million for the Niagara Falls Water Board to upgrade its wastewater treatment process; $10 million for the Town of Elizabethtown to build a new wastewater treatment plant; and $2.5 million for the City of Peekskill to repair the Lower Wiccopee Dam at its drinking water reservoir. Sixty-three WQIP and NPG grants totaling about $122 million will support watersheds that have experienced harmful algal blooms in the past five years, and $17 million in Clean Water Infrastructure funding will go to road salt reduction, including brine-making equipment, salt storage and retrofitted snowplows.
"Access to clean water is a fundamental human right, which is why under my administration New York has made record investments to improve water quality across the state," Governor Hochul said. DEC Commissioner Amanda Lefton said the nearly $300 million awarded through the two programs reduces flood risk and protects drinking water and aquatic habitats. State Senator Pete Harckham pointed to the $2.5 million to shore up the dam and spillway at Wiccopee Reservoir, the source of Peekskill's drinking water.
According to the governor's office, New York has invested more than $10 billion in water infrastructure and clean water projects since Hochul took office, and the enacted fiscal 2027 budget sets out a $3.75 billion water infrastructure investment plan, building on $10.6 billion provided since 2021. WQIP is funded primarily by the 2022 Clean Water, Clean Air, and Green Jobs Environmental Bond Act, the Environmental Protection Fund and the state's Clean Water Infrastructure program.
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