Massachusetts upgrades Loring wastewater facility

Limestone Water and Sewer District (LWSD) has completed upgrade works at the former Loring wastewater facility and effluent pump station in Massachusetts, US.

The utility will own and operate the facility, which has been renamed the Greater Limestone Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility.

The project is part of a larger $21m project that regionalises two ageing wastewater treatment facilities, Loring and Limestone, into one newly upgraded facility at Loring, which will provide significant environmental and economic benefits to the local area.

USDA Rural Development has provided an $11.3m grant, Maine Department of Environmental Protection has issued $5.3m and the US Environmental Protection Agency has allocated over $4m for the project.

The project will eliminate the facility’s outfall discharges to two low-flow water bodies, Limestone Stream and the Little Madawaska River, as well as an emergency bypass to Greenlaw Brook.

The treated effluent from the newly combined facilities will be conveyed through the upgraded effluent pump station and a newly installed 18,000ft outfall pipe to the Aroostook River.