Corps of Engineers and Gordon Sanitary District No. 1 partner on project design
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, and the Gordon Sanitary District No. 1 of Douglas County signed a project partnership agreement Jan. 26 to design an extension to the current wastewater collection system.
The project will develop a design to add 55 existing buildings to the current wastewater collection system and is expected to be complete by the fall of 2010. The project is estimated to cost $348,000 of which the federal government pay $261,000.
Corps' projects such as this one are authorized and funded under the Northern Wisconsin Section 154 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2001. The program is to provide design and construction assistance to local governments for carrying out water-related environmental infrastructure and resource projection projects in the four northernmost counties of the Wisconsin's 7th Congressional District.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, serves the American public in the areas of environmental enhancement, navigation, flood damage reduction, water and wetlands regulation, recreation sites and disaster response. It contributes around $175 million to the five-state district economy. The more than 638 employees work at more than 40 sites in five upper-Midwest states.
