A facility under construction will treat the same amount of wastewater but has upgrades for better seismic and flooding resilience.

Chicago has around 400,000 homes with lead service lines. Although the city has made EPA's safe drinking water standard, the homes tested mostly belong to employees and retirees from the water management department and the voluntary replacement program is not funded beyond 2021.

State reached agreement to pay homeowners and businesses for lead-tainted water but its lawsuits against consultants that advised the city will continue.

A $185-million project will use thermal energy from nearby sewer pipelines to heat and cool seven buildings on a new 250-acre academic campus in Denver.

Plan calls for deepening the river from Baton Rouge to the Gulf to 50 ft., from 45 ft. now.