Progress continues on upgrading of the pipeline collection system.

About $2 million a year is being invested to improve sewers and pumping facilities, as well as improving or replacing more than 20 miles of sewer pipelines. The District is currently rebuilding seven older pump stations in Bel Marin Keys, with work scheduled to be completed by September 2009. The new stations will be more reliable, quieter, and safer.

We also are designing several projects to remove bottlenecks in the sewer system that have caused sewer system overflows and are replacing older failing sewers. Homeowners along the routes of these improvements will be contacted and encouraged to repair their sewer laterals at the same time.

Over $12 million in sewer and pump station upgrade projects have been completed, with $27 million more to come in the next 5 years.