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Skokie MWRD Plant to Get New Equipment
Gov. Pat Quinn awarded the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago with a $250 million low-interest loan on Monday. Some of the money will go toward purchasing new equipment for Skokie's O'Brien Plant.
Gov. Pat Quinn awarded the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) with a $250 million low-interest loan on Monday. The money will be used to move forward with various projects and update the region’s water infrastructure, clean up area-rivers and improve public health, according to a press release issued by the governor’s office.
Some of the money will go toward purchasing disinfection equipment to treat out-flowing water at MWRD’s O’Brien Water Reclamation Plant in Skokie.
“The nutrient removal projects are aimed at resource recovery with a return on investment for our taxpayers,” MWRD Board President Kathleen Therese Meany said in a press release. “These processes are on the cutting edge of treatment technology and will transform the wastewater industry into a resource recovery enterprise.”
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The MWRD was able to receive the loan through the governor’s Illinois Clean Water Initiative.
Through various projects, the loan will create 2,000 construction-related jobs and support an additional 8,000 jobs in local communities, according to the press release.
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