Our nation is facing a water infrastructure crisis that poses challenges to communities in every Congressional District in the country.
Every day there are reports of failures in aging water infrastructure.
Last week a 45 year old valve burst in the Baltimore wastewater system. The result 10 million gallons of untreated sewage was dumped into a tributary to the Chesapeake Bay. In my Congressional District, a wastewater treatment facility in the City of Oneida failed, dumping 50,000 gallons of sewage into Oneida Lake, closing the Sylvan Beach Resort for Labor Day weekend. We must not forget that water quality begins with water infrastructure. The time for the federal government to step up to the plate on water infrastructure financing is rapidly approaching.