 | Vol. 7 No. 3 Winter 1999 |
| A Newsletter About New Jersey's Water Quality Programs |
DEP Commissioner Robert C. Shinn, Jr., certified 34 projects to receive low-interest loans in November 1999. Totaling $104.9 million, the 34 projects are critical in preserving the state's water resources for future generations. Twenty-one of the projects target wastewater, stormwater and nonpoint source pollution and will help improve substandard sewage treatment facilities, maintain wastewater collection and conveyance systems, and reduce pollution caused by stormwater runoff. The remaining thirteen projects will help municipalities and several private water purveyors meet the requirements of the Safe Drinking Water Act.
The DEP works in partnership with the New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to provide low-interest loans for the construction of a wide variety of clean water and drinking water projects. By combining interest-free loans from the DEP's State Revolving Funds for clean water and drinking water with market-rate loans from the sale of Trust bonds, participants in the Environmental Infrastructure Financing Program are able to borrow money at half the interest rate the Trust pays on its AAA-rated tax-exempt bonds.
For more information on the loan program, contact Assistant Director Nicholas G. Binder, P.E., P.P., of the Municipal Finance and Construction Element, at (609) 292-8961. For more information on the New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust, contact Executive Director Dirk C. Hofman at (609) 219-8600. Sponsors of drinking water projects should contact Phil Royer, Chief, Water Supply Loans, at (609) 292-5550.
The following lists the 34 projects certified by the Municipal Finance and Construction Element in September 1999 for low-interest loans through the Environmental Infrastructure Financing Program. Governor Whitman signed the appropriations bill on July 28, 1999. The DEP and the Trust plan to close on loans with the project sponsors on November 4, 1999.
| Clean Water Projects | |
| Village of Ridgefield Park | $2.1 million for the abatement of combined sewer overflows (CSOs) discharging into the Hackensack River. |
| Jersey City MUA | $3.8 million for the abatement of CSOs discharging into the Hackensack and Hudson rivers. |
| Bayonne MUA | $5 million for relining of oval shaped brick sewers, and the rehabilitation of three pumping stations. |
| Harrison Town | $1.3 million for the abatement of CSOs discharging into the Passaic River. |
| Old Tappan Borough | $6.4 million for the construction of a sewage collection system to serve areas of the borough where on-site sewage systems have malfunctioned. |
| Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners | $23.2 million for improvements to sludge handling facilities. |
| Plainfield Area Regional Sewerage Authority | $3.1 million for the replacement of deteriorated sewer lines. |
| City of Millville | $2.4 million for rehabilitation of the city's existing 100 year old collection system. |
| Old Bridge Municipal Utilities Authority | $2.1 million for the relining of sanitary sewers and manholes. |
| River Edge Borough | $573,254 for the construction of conveyance lines to divert flow from two aging pump stations to the Borough of Paramus' collection system. |
| Pine Hill Borough Municipal Utilities Authority | $1.5 million for the replacement of an existing pump station and the replacement and rehabilitation of sewer lines. |
| Runnemede Sewerage Authority | $866,806 for the rehabilitation and replacement of sewer lines to prevent infiltration/inflow of stormwater. |
| Ship Bottom Borough | $2.1 million for the repair and rehabilitation of sections of its sewage collection system. |
| Longport Borough | $2.5 million for the replacement of the sewage collection system in approximately one quarter of the borough. |
| Maplewood Township | $388,524 for the rehabilitation of parts of the storm drainage system and construction of a new storm drainage pipeline. |
| Randolph Township | $2.1 million for the construction of a new interceptor, a pump station and force main. |
| Oaklyn Borough | $684,459 for the repair of deteriorated and damaged sewer lines. |
| Ewing Township | $4.2 million for the construction of three stormwater detention basins and the stabilization of the bank of the West Branch of the Shabakunk Creek and the purchase of street, stream, and sewer cleaning equipment. |
| Also included in the 1999 Clean Water Financing Program are three supplementary loans for previously financed projects which have experienced increased costs: | |
| Trenton Water Works | $1.7 million |
| Gloucester County Utilities Authority | $666,822 |
| North Bergen Municipal Utilities Authority | $366,934 |
| Drinking Water Projects | |
| Sayreville Borough | $18.5 million for the construction of a water treatment plant. |
| Montclair Town | $2.6 million for the replacement of lead service connections. |
| Berlin Borough | $1 million for the construction of a water treatment facility. |
| City of Camden | $3 million for the construction of a two million gallon water storage tank. |
| North Jersey District Water Supply Commission | $2.2 million for the rehabilitation of part of the treatment plant and for the construction of sites for additional treatment. |
| Bellmawr Borough | $677,394 for replacement of valves and controls in a treatment plant and rehabilitation of a 500,000 gallon storage tank. |
| Westville Borough | $464,272 for the replacement of water mains. |
| City of Brigantine | $915,920 for the cleaning and lining of water mains, installation of valves, hydrants, flow and water meters, and improvements to a water tower. |
| *Middlesex Water Company | $4.35 million for the cleaning and cement lining of water mains. |
| Old Bridge Municipal Utilities Authority | $1.1 million for the construction of a water main. |
| *Harding Woods/Nancy Lee Inc. Pittsgrove Township | $375,938 for the replacement of a storage tank and the installation of a new well. |
| City of Burlington | $1.3 million for the replacement of approximately 3,600 water meters. |
| City of Orange Township | $1.4 million for the replacement or the rehabilitation of wells. |