US city approves loan for wastewater plant upgrade in South Carolina

The US city of Florence in the state of South Carolina has approved a fund to support the upgrade of the wastewater treatment plant in the region.

The Florence City Council has approved a loan agreement of over $10.6m to improve the city’s wastewater treatment facility, which is located at 1000 Stockade Drive, National Cemetery Road.

The loan agreement was unanimously approved by the council members and was addressed in Bill No. 2013 – 03, reported Scnow.com.

Florence City finance director Thomas Chandler was quoted by the newspaper as saying that the funding will expand the facility’s water processing capacity from 15 million gallons per day to 22 million gallons per day.

The members of the Council made provisions for the terms and conditions of the loan that will be utilised to complete the improvement works on the wastewater facility.

In October 2012, the Florence city council decided to carry out the upgrade project.

The South Carolina Water Quality Revolving Fund Authority provided the $10m loan to carry out the third and the final phase of project work, to improve the city’s nearly four-year old wastewater system.

All the states of US and Puerto Rico operate a Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF), which functions like an environmental infrastructure bank and distributes low interest rate loans for water quality projects.

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Image: The US city of Florence has approved a loan for a wastewater upgrade project. Photo: Courtesy of Kristian Bjornard.