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Rockville Awarded Federal Funds
City to Receive More Than $3.7 Million in Grants, $1 Million in Loans
Rockville, Md., November 24, 2009 - The City of Rockville was recently awarded more than $4.7 million in federal funding including $3.7 million in grants and $1 million in loans. The funds will be used for infrastructure improvements and environmental restoration and preservation.
The awards include:
Funding for the police headquarters project will include retrofitting the historic building at the corner of South Washington Street and West Montgomery Avenue to meet current safety and security standards. The City obtained the building from the federal General Services Administration in 2008 and plans to make additional interior upgrades and build an annex building on the property.
Funding for the sewer rehabilitation project was included in a bill, supported by U.S. Senator Benjamin L. Cardin and Congressman Chris Van Hollen, that funds most federal environmental programs for 2010. The project will include rehabilitation of manholes, sewer lining, and inflow prevention. It will repair the pipes and manholes to reduce infiltration and inflow and to ultimately reduce flow to the Blue Plains Wastewater Treatment Plant.
"By improving Rockville's sewage system, we will be taking some of the pressure off the Blue Plains Treatment Plant, which is the largest single source of excess nitrogen into the Chesapeake Bay," said Senator Cardin, chairman of the Water and Wildlife Subcommittee of the Environment and Public Works Committee.
"Passage of the Interior-Environment Appropriations Conference Report means key investments in protecting the environment, conservation, climate change research, and other priorities," said Congressman Van Hollen. "I am particularity pleased that it includes $750,000 for the Rockville Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation Project. This money will allow the city to make critical repairs in its sewer system."
The City was initially awarded $1.3 million in stimulus funds for the Water Treatment Plant Energy Conservation Project and was recently awarded an additional $435,000 to cover contractual costs bringing the total award to more than $1.7 million. The project will improve energy conservation and rehabilitate aging components at the City's water treatment plant, constructed in 1958. Rockville's water treatment plant is one piece of a comprehensive water distribution system that provides clean and safe drinking water to more than 45,000 residents.
The restoration of Woodley Stream will stabilize the stream bank in the Woodley Gardens Park. The funding will be in the form of a stimulus loan not to exceed $1,100,000. The interest rate is one percent and the duration of the loan is 20 years.
For additional information contact Linda Moran, assistant to the city manager, at 240-314-8115 or lmoran@rockvillemd.gov.
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