EPA Awards $1.6 Billion to Upgrade Sacramento Wastewater Treatment Plant

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Regional Administrator Jared Blumenfeld announced a record $1.6 billion in Clean Water Act State Revolving Funds — the largest single block of financing ever issued — to upgrade the Sacramento Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant. Blumenfeld announced the loan award at a groundbreaking event for the treatment plant in Elk Grove, California. The project will bring the wastewater plant to advanced treatment levels, removing nearly 95 percent of ammonia from wastewater discharges to protect the Sacramento River and San Francisco Bay Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary.“California’s economic security depends on a healthy Bay Delta, the largest and most important