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million last week for projects that will improve municipal infrastructure for drinking watetr and wastewater treatmentthroughout Minnesota. The awards are part of a pool of $107 milliob in water-treatment funds for the statre from the American Recovery andReinvestment Act. The remaining funde will be distributed by the withinh the nextseveral weeks. The city of Montevideo receivedfabout $14.9 million in loans and grants — the largesgt award in this round of projects. The westernn Minnesota city plans to use the funds to upgradeits wastewater-treatment plant, including improving phosphorous standards.
The statew recently tightened the standards for phosphorus leveld at water plants in the MinnesotqaRiver Valley, said Steve Jones, Montevideo city “It’s very expensive to get that out of the Montevideo awarded a contractg to Deerwood-based after the city receives the stimulus funds. Jones estimatez that the project could create betweeb 30 to 60 construction jobs this year and will take about 18 monthszto complete. The city of Howard Lake receivedthe second-largestg funding boost, getting $10 million to join its wastewater-treatment plant to the by almostg 10 miles of pipeline.
Barry Glienke, a Howarr Lake city engineer, said construction on the project beganbin March, and the stimulus funds will see it through to The project, contracted to , is expected to be completd and operational by the end of The cities of Duluth, St. Hilaire, Dassel and New York Millzs also received funds to improvewastewatetr facilities.
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