EPA awards Va. $80.2 million for wastewater treatment

The Environmental Protection Agency has given Virginia $80.2 million in federal stimulus money for wastewater treatment improvements.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine accepted the money yesterday. It will be used to create jobs, improve aging water infrastructure, and protect human health and the environment.

A news release says projects include work to eliminate sewage discharges from combined sewage overflow systems in Lynchburg and Richmond.

The largest grant will be $25 million for the Lynchburg project.

Kaine says the money also will be used to reduce discharges of nutrients and other pollutants into the Chesapeake Bay watershed and eliminate overflows of raw sewage in communities throughout the state.