Sacramento gets $3.5 million federal funding for stormwater projects

(UC) — Sacramento, Calif., will get $3.5 million in federal funding to help pay for underground reservoirs to harden parts of the combined storm and sewage system within the city’s aging underground infrastructure, The Sacramento Bee reported.

The project includes two underground reservoirs, and the city expects to start construction on them within five years, the article states. These reservoirs will be part of the storm and wastewater system that exists in downtown, East Sacramento, Oak Park and Land Park, which are older neighborhoods with older water infrastructure, the Sacramento Bee reported.

Rep. Doris Matsui, D-Sacramento, said the two projects funded with the $3.5 million — the 24^th Street In-Line Combined Sewer System Storage Pipe Project and the Combined Sewer System Improvement Project ­— are critical.

“Our city’s underground infrastructure is often forgotten, but it is the workhorse of what makes our city run,” Matsui said in a statement. “The storm water and sewer system improvements will help keep city streets from flooding during storm events that overwhelm the drainage system.”

She helped secure the funding for the city’s utility department as part of the $1.5 trillion Infrastructure Law, the Sacramento Bee reported.

The projects should help prevent wastewater spillage, manage urban flooding, maintain water quality, and keep sewage and pollutants out of waterways during storms, the article states.

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