Oberstar: Feds to pay $2.4 million for Duluth water projects by Press Release Appearing in Duluth News Tribune on 2009-04-30. Duluth will benefit from millions of dollars recently awarded to a federal program that pays for water treatment projects in Northeastern Minnesota, according to a news release from U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar, D-Chisholm. The release said Duluth will receive about $2.4 million of the $10 million awarded to the program by the American Recovery Act. The money will help pay for lining for sanitary sewers and an overflow storage facility in eastern Duluth. Duluth is under federal order to stop the overflow of untreated sewage into Lake Superior. The city is about halfway through a $120 million, 15-year effort to build sewage overflow tanks at key bottlenecks in the system to capture overflows that occur when rainwater and melting snow leak into the sanitary sewage system. The plan also includes efforts to keep rainwater from being pumped into the sewers from basement drains across the city and to upgrade leaky pipes between homes and streets.

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