When Erie County residents think of major construction and borrowing projects, particularly for the Southtowns, they likely think about construction on the new Buffalo Bills stadium.
One of the biggest outlays of county money has nothing to do with stadium construction – though it does affect the team and its fans.
Instead, it has to do with treatment of human wastewater.
Erie County is preparing to spend $32.7 million of its first batch of American Rescue Plan money on county sewer system improvements, more than any other infrastructure spending category.
The Erie County Legislature is expected to approve a $54.9 million contract with a West Seneca contractor for the first phase of a giant overhaul and expansion of the Southtowns Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant. The Hamburg plant is responsible for transforming sewer water into clean water for those who live in the towns of Hamburg, Orchard Park, Boston and Eden.
It also is responsible for handling the sewage that comes from anyone who flushes a stadium toilet at 1 Bills Drive.
There has not been a bigger contract issued for a county sewer project since the original sewer treatment plants were built in the 1970s and ‘80s, said Joseph Fiegl, deputy commissioner of Erie County division of sewerage…
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