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WRAP MONTHLY UPDATE – SEPTEMBER 2021 Action Highlights
Spotlight on Climate Change Incorporating water reuse as part of a community’s water portfolio can provide resilience against climate-induced impacts like drought, flooding, saltwater intrusion, and land subsidence from groundwater overdrafts. The following climate change-related resources are largely activities and outputs of WRAP action teams. For more topical reuse resources, visit this page.
WIFIA Loan for Major Climate Resilient Water Infrastructure Project EPA Assistant Administrator for Water, Radhika Fox, joined local officials in Virginia to announce a $477 million WIFIA loan to the Hampton Roads Sanitation District (HRSD). This loan is the second installment of a total of $1 billion in WIFIA assistance for HRSD. The WIFIA funding will help retire an 80-year-old wastewater treatment plant in an economically challenged community and replenish groundwater supplies that are threatened by sea level rise. The Sustainable Water Infrastructure for Tomorrow (SWIFT) Program includes more than twenty projects across the Hampton Roads service area to upgrade existing treatment works and build full-scale SWIFT facilities that will ultimately replenish the overdrawn Potomac Aquifer with water treated to meet drinking water standards.
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