A multi-billion-dollar project to clean up Pittsburgh’s rivers and streams has been talked about for decades. Now it’s finally moving forward.
After two decades of debates and delays, it’s about to become a reality: an expanded treatment plant and 16 miles of tunnels, catching billions of gallons of sewage-laced rainwater before it flows into rivers and streams. At $3.5 billion, when completed, it will be the largest public works project in the Pittsburgh region’s history.
“It is finally moving forward. We are out to bid for the Ohio River tunnel,” said Kimberly Kennedy, ALCOSAN’s director of engineering and construction…