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Stimulus money set aside for water projects

By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: 11/28/2009 2:44 PM
Last Modified: 11/28/2009 2:44 PM

OKLAHOMA CITY — Federal economic stimulus money will be used to fund more than 20 drinking water projects in Oklahoma.

The projects will include expanding old water treatment plants and services and bringing some providers into compliance with health and environmental standards.

The state Department of Environmental Quality and the Oklahoma Water Resources Board received $31.5 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act money to bolster their revolving loan fund for drinking water projects.

Patty Thompson, the fund's engineering manager, says the money helped leverage more than $138 million in loans for projects across the state.

Local governments were able to get low-interest loans from the Oklahoma Water Resources Board to fund drinking water projects.

Thompson says 60 contracts are being bid to complete construction on 23 projects statewide.

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

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	Report Comment Thunder196, Tulsa (11/28/2009 2:54:43 PM) If this is being used to update, replace outdated treatment facilities or build new, then it will be money well spent. Nothing like cool clear water. Something we tend to take for granted. We just assume that it will always be there.
	Report Comment FUTURE WORLD, Tulsa (11/28/2009 5:44:14 PM) I had thought a majority of Oklahomans were against accepting stimulas money. Now it seems they can't get enough of it.
	Report Comment Elusive, Owasso (11/29/2009 1:07:16 AM) They are temporary jobs, imagine how many water treatment plants across the U.S. all of us and our grandchildren are paying for when the cities should have paid for them.

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