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Viable Utility Committee of the State Water Infrastructure Authority
The Viable Utility Committee of the State Water Infrastructure Authority will meet via teleconference on Thursday, Jan. 26, from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. The public may listen to the meeting online or by phone. WHO: Viable Utility Committee of the State Water Infrastructure Authority WHAT: MeetingWHEN: Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. WHERE: *Via WebEx To listen to the meeting via WebEx: Online: https://ncgov.webex.com/ncgov/onstage/g.php?MTID=e38b423c52b99102823447911b5a05270 Event Password: NCDWI By Phone: 415.655.0003 Access Code: 2435 464 6623 The authority is an independent body with primary responsibility for awarding federal and state funding for water and wastewater infrastructure projects. Other responsibilities include developing a state water infrastructure master…
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State Water Infrastructure Authority Meeting
The State Water Infrastructure Authority will meet Dec. 14, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. at the Steve Troxler Agricultural Sciences Center, 4400 Reedy Creek Rd, Raleigh, NC 27607 AGENDA The public may also listen to the meeting virtually (via WebEx), online or by phone. WebEx Instructions: Online: https://ncdenrits.webex.com/ncdenrits/onstage/g.php?MTID=e6b847c421df80ac41a17abd069d3d23e Event password: NCDWI By phone/call-in: 415-655-0003 Access Code: 2420 370 0823 Requests for public comment: can be registered via email until 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, December 13 to: Jennifer.Haynie@ncdenr.gov
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Comment Deadline on Proposed Plan to Administer American Rescue Plan Act’s Funding – Jan 12, 5PM
State Seeks Public Comment on Proposed Plan to Administer American Rescue Plan Act’s State Fiscal Recovery Funding RALEIGH – The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Water Infrastructure (DWI) is accepting comments until January 12, 2022 on the proposed plan to administer approximately $1.6 billion in federal funds appropriated in the state budget for drinking water, wastewater and stormwater infrastructure. The North Carolina General Assembly appropriated the funds from the state’s allocation of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), including $839.6 million directed to specific local governments and public entities. DWI will administer the remaining…
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When the Faucet Runs Dry
Grist, Sponsored by NRDCAugust 31, 2021 On the gritty streets of Detroit, community organizer Sylvia Orduño has been working to help the city’s most vulnerable residents for over twenty years. “There’s one family that sticks in my mind,” she says. “He was a disabled former police officer. He had so many health problems that they couldn’t keep up with the bills, so their water was shut off. His wife and daughter were hauling water in bottles to bathe him.” The story Orduño shared should be an isolated, tragic occurrence — but it’s not….
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With town of Eureka drowning in sewage bills, state takes control
By: Kirk Ross, Carolina Public Press August 7, 2019 In early June, the small northern Wayne County town of Eureka, got its official warning letter from the N.C. Department of State Treasurer that, due to concern about how the town was handling its sewer system funds, the state intended to take over its finances and assume direct control of the town. A month later, the department has made good on its promise, taking over the town’s accounts, impounding its books and financial records, and setting a new temporary budget for operations. It’s not the first time the state has taken over a town…
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