Alex Dalton

Design work is now underway on a $1.5 million sewer infrastructure project in Valparaiso, the city announced in a Monday press release.

The project, funded in part through a $960,000 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, will divert stormwater flowing along Weston Street from Lincolnway to Chicago Street and along Lincolnway to just west of Campbell Street at Village Station from an existing combined sewer system to dedicated stormwater lines.

With a combined storm and sanitary sewer, both rainwater entering roadside drains and wastewater flowing from homes and businesses are piped to a treatment facility, which filters and disinfects the water before it is allowed to flow into a waterway. Heavy rain events can disrupt the process, causing pools of combined st

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