The Village received 10 million dollars from the Water Quality Improvement Project,

A 225 million dollar grant which Governor Kathy Hochul announced on December 23rd of last year.

The grant is the latest of three grants contributing to the project, including $25 million from a water improvement infrastructure award in October of last year, and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

The grant money will go to the installation of a Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor at the Endicott Wastewater Treatment Facility.

Mayor Nick Burlingame said the investment will help them reduce nutrient discharge into the Susquehanna river and Chesapeake bay, with a focus on helping future generations.

Investments like removing nitrogen from the water, something Phillip Grayson, Chief Operator of Wastewater at the Village of Endicott, believes will help the Village reach sanitation goals.

"The facility currently isn't designed to remove nitrogen and with, changing regulations with the Susquehanna River being a protected water body, it's imperative that we make sure we keep up with adjusting limits and have that ability to remove nitrogen so that we can maintain compliance with, the state federal government," Grayson said.

Another provision will be contributing to the removal of phosphorus, which will help with seasonal blights.

"The phosphorus issues, which we know, are an issue for New York State harmful algal blooms or something in the news for us every summer. So this will give us the ability to reduce some more phosphorus out of our waste stream", Grayson said.

According to Grayson, the project will continue to be in the planning stages through 2025, with full scale projects beginning in 2026.