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DNRECMainText Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control
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The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control has a number of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act projects under way. One of them was recently completed by DNREC's Tank Management Branch. Three leaking underground tanks were removed this month from a former gas station in Wilmington. The work was funded by ARRA, with the state hiring J&M Industries to handle the tank removal. Prior to the tanks coming out, B&E Waste Oil was subcontracted to pump out and dispose of residual petroleum in the tanks. The property is planned for development. Onsite for the removal were Jason Turner (left) of the Tank Management Branch and Jim Maddux of J&M Industries. Other DNREC ARRA projects are described below. | Division of Water Resources, Financial Assistance Branch
Certified Clean Water ARRA Projects
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County |
Project Name |
Project Description
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ARRA
Project Cost |
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Sussex
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Angola Neck Sanitary Sewer District
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The project includes the installation of a gravity wastewater collection system with conveyance and transmission facilities. Woods of Hearing Creek and Angola by the Bay will be served by the new wastewater infrastructure. This project will eliminate approximately 1,360 septic systems and prevent 216 additional septic systems from being installed. The project will consist of the installation of approximately 72,720 feet of gravity sewer, 7 lift/pump stations, and approximately 25,500 feet of force main which will direct flows to the Inland Bays Regional Wastewater Facility.
- Permanent Residents Impacted: 3,000
- Total Project Costs: $33,500,000
- ARRA Assistance: $1,500,000 principal forgiveness to refinance Base CWSRF Loan (originally $15M)
- Jobs Created: 225 Construction Jobs; and 4 new Operations and Maintenance Jobs
- Project Milestones: ARRA Refinance Loan closed on August 21st, 2009
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$1,500,000 |
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Sussex
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Johnson’s Corner Sanitary Sewer District
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The project includes a gravity wastewater collection system with conveyance and transmission facilities. Residents in the Johnson's Corner Sanitary Sewer District are will be served by the new wastewater infrastructure. This project will eliminate approximately 375 septic systems and prevent 102 additional septic systems from being installed. The project will consist of the installation of approximately 40,000 linear feet of gravity sewer; 13,000 linear feet of laterals; 10,000 linear feet of pump station force main; installation of 40 individual home grinder pump units; and 5,00 linear feet of grinder pump force main. Flows from the new sanitary sewer district will be conveyed to the County's existing regional Pump Station #30 system, then to the County's Regional Wastewater Facility for treatment and disposal.
- Permanent Residents Impacted: 1,200
- Total Project Costs: $11,867,971
- ARRA Assistance: $5,083,986 including principal forgiveness of $1,248,083
- Jobs Created: 50 Construction Jobs
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$5,083,986
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OTHER CERTIFIED CLEAN WATER ACT ARRA PROJECTS:
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County |
Project Name |
Project Description |
ARRA
Project
Cost |
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Sussex |
Woodlands of Millsboro |
Installation of sewer collection and transmission systems for a new sanitary sewer district in the Woodlands of Millsboro area. |
$640,000 |
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Sussex |
Oak Orchard Sanitary Sewer District Expansion # 1 |
Installation of sewer collection and transmission systems for a new sanitary sewer district in the Oak Orchard area. |
$5,641,503 |
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Sussex |
Inland Bays Regional Wastewater Facility Expansion |
Upgrade and expansion of a regional wastewater treatment plant facility. |
$1,756,227 |
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Sussex |
Town of Millsboro Wastewater Disposal and Reuse |
Installation of purple pipe for reuse of drinking-water quality wastewater for toilet flushing, fire protection, street cleaning, etc. |
$250,000 |
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New Castle |
The Challenge Program Construction Training and Education Center |
Installation of green components at a construction and training center; green roof, catchment basins, raingarden, riparian buffer, freshwater tidal marsh, cistern, gray water system, irrigation system, and rain barrels |
$190,000 |
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New Castle |
New Castle Conservation District Wilmington Silverbrook Run C.S.O |
Installation of stormwater basin improvements for storage capacity, wetlands creation, and downstream flooding control to improve water quality |
$1,000,000 |
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New
Castle |
City of New Castle Stormwater Management Facility Retrofit
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Retrofit of six existing stormwater management facilities to provide enhanced stormwater quality management, wetlands creation and enhancement |
$250,000 |
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New
Castle |
City of New Castle
Washington Park Flood Mitigation |
Downstream clearing and construction to provide an outlet for the stormwater collection system, wetlands creation and enhancement
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$630,000 |
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New
Castle
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City of New Castle
Buttonwood Dike Flood Mitigation |
Installation of a self-regulating tide gate to provide flood protection, free tidal exchange of waters for wetlands creation and enhancement |
$442,500 |
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Kent |
Kent County Levy Court
Wastewater Treatment Renewable Energy Park – Passive Solar |
Installation of renewable energy generating systems at Kent County Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant - Thermal Solar Sludge Dryer Greenhouse
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$1,085,320 |
Total: $18,469,536
Division of Air & Waste Management
Tanks Management Branch
Leaking Underground Storage Tank Cleanup
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County
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Project Name |
Project Description
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ARRA
Project Cost |
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New Castle,
Kent,
Sussex
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Leaking Underground Storage Tank Cleanup
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The project involves conducting environmental investigations and cleanup activities at up to 23 leaking underground storage tank (LUST) sites located throughout the state.
This funding can only be used for “shovel ready” federally-regulated leaking underground storage tank sites that meet EPA’s qualification criteria such as when the tank owner is unknown, unwilling to perform the work, financially unable to perform the work, or when the cleanup is performed as an emergency response action. 
The terms and conditions associated with spending LUST stimulus money require that 35 percent of LUST stimulus funds are obligated and 15 percent spent within nine months of the grant award. This is in line with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act whose intent was to get money into the hands of businesses as quickly as possible to generate or maintain jobs.
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$1,230,000 |
Division of Air & Waste Management
Air Quality Management Section
State Clean Diesel Grant Program
Project description: There are three different clean diesel initiatives for the grant:
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Installation of diesel particulate filters or other after treatment control devices on 23 heavy duty trucks operated by the City of Wilmington and 45 school buses operated in Kent and Sussex Counties.
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Installation of a truck stop electrification facility at the Smyrna Rest Area located in southern New Castle County.
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Replacement of two diesel generators at the Fort Delaware State Park with a cleaner micro turbine generator.
Grant amount: $1.73 million
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