Miami-Dade County, Fla., will receive a $235.2-million loan from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act program, the third WIFIA loan EPA has approved for the county in 16 months.
The new low-interest loan, whose closing EPA announced on Aug. 6, will cover about 49% of the costs of a $480-million project that will increase treatment capacity at the county Water and Sewer Dept.’s South District Wastewater Treatment Plant to 131 million gallons per day, from 112.54 mgd now.