Corps signs project agreement with Cooperstown, N.D.

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, recently signed a project partnership agreement with Cooperstown, North Dakota, for the construction of a new water line.

The project, which is covered under the Corps’ Environmental Infrastructure Assistance program, includes the design and construction of proposed improvements on a water transmission line replacement project. The work will consist of the placement of five miles of an 8-inch polyvinyl chloride, or PVC, pipe from the previously upgraded line from the Cooperstown wells to its water treatment plant. The project is estimated to cost $2.9 million of which the federal government will pay $2.2 million.

The Corps’ Environmental Infrastructure Program, also referred to as Section 594 program, authorizes the Corps to assist public entities, in the form of design and construction of projects in North Dakota. These projects include wastewater treatment, combined sewer overflow water supply, as well as environmental restoration and surface water protection and development.

The nearly 650 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, employees working at more than 40 sites in five upper-Midwest states serve the American public in the areas of environmental enhancement, navigation, flood damage reduction, water and wetlands regulation, recreation sites and disaster response. Through the Corps’ Fiscal Year 2014 $100 million budget, nearly 1,600 non-Corps jobs were added to the regional economy as well as $155 million to the national economy. For more information, see www.mvp.usace.army.mil.

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