When the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed in 2009, officials with the Scottsdale (Ariz.) Water Resources Department were drawn to it by the availability of grant funding.
Scottsdale secured a grant through the U.S. Department of Energy for turbo blowers to replace multi-stage centrifugal blowers at two wastewater reclamation plants. The $1 million grant covered nearly the entire $1.08 million project, which went online in early 2012 after three years of planning and design by Valentine Environmental Engineers and installation by MGC Contractors, both local firms.
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