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The primary goal of the Smart Sewer Program is to treat 77% of combined sewer overflows by 2035 and 85% by 2040. The utility has already spent about a billion dollars in the first 12 years of the project, and 51 more projects worth about $225 million in contracts will begin this year.
KC Water is in the midst of orchestrating a roughly $2.3 billion, 30-year makeover of the sewer infrastructure in Kansas City, Missouri — a massive project that includes a new biosolids processing facility that will be the first of its kind in the Midwest.
The project, called the...