WILMINGTON — Cape Fear Public Utility Authority will receive up to $35 million in loans from the state to replace and expand its Southside Wastewater Treatment Plant.
READ MORE: CFPUA: Costs rise for construction of new wastewater treatment facility, now topping $250M
The project will include the addition of a new activated sludge treatment process, which can treat both municipal and industrial wastewater. The $35 million will help decrease the local pricetag of the expansion, which Port City Daily reported was at the $250 million mark in fall 2022.
The loans come a $223 million pot distributed statewide for community wastewater and drinking water infrastructure. Announced by Gov. Roy Cooper on Thursday, the funding will aide 60 projects, 41 of which are construction, across 40 counties.
“This funding will help us achieve our goal of safer, cleaner drinking water for all North Carolinians,” Cooper said in a press release.
Also known as the M’Kean Maffitt Wastewater Treatment Plant, the aging 1970s facility has capacity to distribute 12 million gallons per day and a goal of reaching 16 million to match the Northside plant.
There is a roughly five-year timeline to complete the Southside expansion, though no contracts have yet been signed.
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