City May 29, 2009 12:13 PM

Mayor Announces $17.6 Million for Hamburg Drain Control Facility

Mayor Announces $17.6 Million for Hamburg Drain Control Facility
Timothy Hobin
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Mayor Byron W. Brown, Senator Charles E. Schumer and Congressman Brian Higgins announced Thursday that $17.6 million in funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act have been approved for the Buffalo Sewer Authority's planning, design and construction of the Hamburg Drain Control Facility, which collects and processes input from twenty sewer regulators within the Hamburg drain system.

 

"These stimulus dollars to upgrade Buffalo's aging system lays a critical foundation for providing jobs, encouraging economic growth, and improving the quality of life across the region," Schumer said. 

 

According to the Sewer Authority, design is over 50 percent done for the new Hamburg Drain Control Facility and the Authority expects to go to bid this fall for its constructions.

 

"This project is also an essential component of Buffalo's Inner Harbor redevelopment," said Congressman Higgins."

 

Thumbnail image for inner harbor.jpgMayor Brown is a member of Building America's Future, a national, bipartisan coalition of state and locally elected officials who are working collaboratively to gain a stronger federal commitment to upgrade infrastructure throughout the country. The new group was formed by Governors Arnold Schwarzenegger (CA) and Ed Rendell (PA) and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

 

"In order to strengthen Buffalo, continue to build the momentum we have achieved in recent years - attracting new developments and investment - and to ensure ongoing development efforts succeed, like the rebuilding of Buffalo's waterfront, it is essential that more investments are made in upgrading our city's infrastructure," said Mayor Brown.

 

To date, $37.7 in federal stimulus funds have been approved for a variety of projects in the City of Buffalo.

 

New York will receive a total of $435 million in federal funding for the Clean Water State Revolving Fund.  According to the State's lists, $104,155,000 in Clean Water State Revolving Fund projects in Congressman Higgins' district would be eligible for funding. 

 

The Recovery Act provides $19 billion for clean water, flood control, and environmental restoration investments expected to support over 2,000 water infrastructure projects and create 300,000 jobs nationwide. 

 

The federal stimulus funds will be matched with $8.8 million from the Buffalo Sewer Authority.

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jstraubinger
May 29, 2009 12:26 PM
jstraubinger


Is there a website that shows which stimulus projects have been approved for Buffalo?

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Averoes
May 29, 2009 12:38 PM
Averoes

http://www.recovery.org/For_Businesses.aspx?gloc=ERIE%20[NY]*CNT:36029&mloc=NY

recovery.org lists projects from municipality up and recovery.gov lists them federal down.

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Timothy Hobin
May 29, 2009 12:42 PM
Timothy Hobin

$2.7 million for first-phase energy conservation improvements to city-owned buildings; $2.3 million for the reconstruction of four historic streets in the city’s Inner Harbor area.

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Sean Brodfuehrer
May 29, 2009 1:15 PM
Sean Brodfuehrer

bout time!


What exactly are they going to do and divert \ collect this garbage. If they are only going to spend this money to push the crude someplace else it doesn't solve the problem. Are they going to catch it and dispose of it property?

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Roy
May 29, 2009 1:46 PM
Roy

We need a combined sewage overflow remediation plan for all of Buffalo including the Scajaquada Creek, the Inner Harbor and other places of heavy fecal pollution. $17.6 Million on the Inner Harbor is an insane amount of money on one little part of the problem!

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bflobr
May 29, 2009 1:55 PM
bflobr

Roy- FYI, there is such a plan, but no such funding. All older cities face the same problems with CSOs. $17.6 Million is an insane amount of money, thats why transforming our entire CSO is in the range of over a half a Billion dollars.

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suburban_hillbilly
May 29, 2009 2:15 PM
suburban_hillbilly

Where exactly are they building this lovely facility?

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townline
May 29, 2009 2:24 PM
townline

I think under the I-190 to the north.

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townline
May 29, 2009 2:15 PM
townline

Perhaps also better development policy regulating the amounts of impervious surfaces (parking) that are created throughout the city, causing the storm water overflow.

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Sean Brodfuehrer
May 29, 2009 2:31 PM
Sean Brodfuehrer

I have a fear from what I hear... they are not going to solve the problem but somehow change the outcome of the same process.


It almost seems like they are just going to install a trap further inland to try and 'filter' the water from such debris. It would be underground, potentially stalling or inhibiting the expansion of the canal inland as well as needed to be emptied now and then. This is all conjecture from the quotes in the article but I don't know what much else they could plan on doing for only 17 million.

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flyguy
May 29, 2009 2:45 PM
flyguy

This is a positive piece of the puzzle for the inner harbor. Good to hear!

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sp94axp
May 29, 2009 4:34 PM
sp94axp

The screening facility will remove the debris from the Hamburg Drain and convey it into a dumpster to be properly disposed of. The Building will be located between the Oak and Elm Street ramps to the 190, behind the train station. You won't miss it when it's done, it will be approx. 40' high. It should also be noted that this will only remove the debris coming out of the Hamburg Drain. Debris that enters the Commercial Slip from the Buffalo River will continue to be a problem even after this project is complete.

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mattgo
May 29, 2009 5:59 PM
mattgo

Will this improve the water quality at Woodlawn Beach?

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Sean Brodfuehrer
May 29, 2009 10:47 PM
Sean Brodfuehrer

it also won't filter out any of the diluted problems with the overflow then. AKA the smell or other less solid floatables... will probably pass through.


A good start but maybe it is time we think about increasing the capacity of the sewer treatment instead.

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