St. Louis spending billions on wastewater capital improvements
The Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) is wrapping up phase one of its whopping $3.7 billion capital improvement and restoration program, Engineering News Record reported last week. The $500 million phase one work included expansion and renovation of three wastewater treatment plants and construction of a fifth, the $233 million Lower Meramec Rvier plant. In phase two, MSD will spend $600 million to $1 billion to address urgent replacement and repair needs on MSD’s 6,300 miles of sewers, some of which were built 130 years ago. The balance of the work - between $2.2 billion and $2.6 billion - will be defined in future planning efforts.
