by Associated Press Published: November 7,2012
Tags: city, contract, government, infrastructure, municipal, municipality, prizative, public works, utility, wastewater, water
GAUTIER — The Gautier City Council has approved a contract to have Clearwater Solutions become the service provider for the public works department. The Sun Herald reports the first year of the five-year contact will cost the city a little more than $1.6 million; the other years will cost a little more than $1.7 million. [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 17,2012
Tags: appropriation, city, energy, funding, government, infrastructure, municipal, municipality, pipe, sewage, sewer, system, wastewater, water
JACKSON — The Jackson City Council approved a $90-million water and sewer project worth one-fourth of the city’s total budget, banking on a contractor’s guarantee that the work will pay for itself within 15 years. The Clarion-Ledger reports the 5-2 vote sets the stage for work to begin as soon as January on a broad [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: October 16,2012
Tags: beach, closure, ecology, ecosystem, environment, pollution, public health, sewage, sewer, state agency, wastewater, wildlife
BAY ST. LOUIS — The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) has lifted a temporary water contact advisory issued Sept. 24 for Joe’s Bayou near Felicity Street in Bay St. Louis. The advisory was issued due to a sewer spill from a malfunctioning pump station. The advisory covered Joe’s Bayou and adjacent waters in the [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 15,2012
Tags: agency, facility, funding, infrastructure, loan, Sales Tax, sewage, sewer, state government, tax, tax collection, taxpayer, town, trewatment, wastewater
SUMMIT — The Summit Town Council has agreed to divert more than $7,000 in monthly sales tax revenues to pay off a $1.4-million debt to the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, which is bankrolling the town’s new wastewater treatment facility. Town Clerk Pat Whittington tells the Enterprise-Journal DEQ officials stipulated in their loan agreement with [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 9,2012
Tags: city, environment, federal agency, fimne, infrastructure, municipal, municipal government, municipality, penalty, pollution, sewage, sewer, wastewater, water
JACKSON — The city of Jackson has agreed to spend $400 million to make sewer improvements and to pay fines to the Environmental Protection Agency for releasing more than 2.8 billion gallons of minimally treated sewage into the Pearl River system over the last four years. The city council approved the consent decree with the [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 8,2012
Tags: city, ecosystem, environment, federal agency, fish, fishing, municipal government, municipality, pollution, public health, report, sewage, sewer, survey, swim, swimmer, swimming, treated, treatment, wastewater, wildlife
JACKSON — The city of Jackson released more than 2.8 billion gallons of minimally treated sewage — enough to fill four NFL stadiums — into the Pearl River system over the last four years, the Environmental Protection Agency says. Analysis of reports filed with the state Department of Environmental Quality indicate that Jackson bypassed treatment [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: September 30,2012
Tags: complex, construction, facility, improvement, infrastructure, public transportation, sewage, sewer, shop, shopper, shopping, technology, tourism, tourist, transit, transportation, travel, vacation, visitor, waste, wastewater
NATCHEZ — Work is underway at the site of the future Natchez transit facility. The Natchez Democrat reports crews with Paul Jackson Construction of Brookhaven are removing a fence, concrete slab and shed from the site, formerly the location of A-B Motor Company. The crews also have 7,000 yards of dirt that has to be [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: September 4,2012
Tags: city, environment, federal agency, federal government, fine, infrastructure, law, municipal government, municipality, pollution, sewer, wastewater, water
JACKSON — After decades of neglecting its sewer system, the city of Jackson soon will face a staggering bill to rebuild it properly. The Jackson City Council could authorize soon a deal with the Environmental Protection Agency in which the city would agree to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on sewer upgrades and pay [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: June 27,2012
Tags: county agency, county government, disaster, disaster recovery, drink, drinking, hurricane, infrasturcture, natural disaster, severe weather, sewage, sewer, tropical weather, waste water, wastewater, water, Weather
JACKSON COUNTY — The Jackson County Utility Authority has spent its Hurricane Katrina recovery project funds on water and wastewater projects that will be well utilized across the county, leaders say. An Associated Press investigation revealed that the Harrison County Utility Authority used millions of dollars to build sewage plants that are underused or sitting [...] [...]
POPLARVILLE — After six and a half years of work, Pearl River County now has two state-of-the-art computerized wastewater treatment facilities up and running. The Picayune Item reports plants were opened late last week with members of the county Utility Authority board and officials with the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality in attendance. Both sewage [...] [...]
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