June 21, 2018
The Environmental Protection Agency has issued a $69.7 million low-interest loan to the City of Omaha to help finance a major part of its massive sewer overhaul.
The Saddle Creek Retention Treatment Basin will eliminate about 90 percent of the water pollution occurring in the area of Omaha that it will serve.
The sewer overhaul has been needed because, during wet weather, sewage and storm runoff combine and overflow into area streams. Sewage in the Saddle Creek Basin flows into the Little Papillion Creek and then the Missouri River.
According to a press release from the EPA, the treatment basin will collect and treat up to 320 million gallons of wastewater and stormwater daily that would have spilled into the creek during wet weather.
