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FPUA board approves assignment of $28 million Resilient Florida grant for wastewater conveyance work
Summary
The Fort Pierce Utilities Authority board on July 15 approved assignment of a $28 million Resilient Florida grant to FPUA to fund conveyance-system work tied to relocating the wastewater treatment plant off the Indian River Lagoon.
The Fort Pierce Utilities Authority board on July 15 approved the assignment of a $28 million Resilient Florida grant to FPUA to support conveyance work tied to relocation of the wastewater treatment plant off the Indian River Lagoon.
FPUA Director of Public Affairs and Sustainability Rachel Tennant told the board the assignment is one part of a larger grants program to supplement a 2022 bond and that the authority has submitted roughly $193.5 million in grant requests and been awarded just under $74.5 million to date. "We have been awarded, just under $74,500,000 of the funds that we've requested so far," Tennant said. She added about $34 million of the awarded amount is in contracts in development and that the $28 million assignment before the board is included in that work.
The project is organized in two broad parts: the new Wastewater Resource Facility (WRF) construction on Energy Lane, and a…
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