环境保护局已批准了两项新贷款，总计6.4亿美元，用于俄勒冈州西部的主要水供应基础设施计划。

贷款批准，announced8月19日，是EPA的水基础设施金融和创新法或wifia计划的一部分，并将帮助资助13亿美元的多年Willamette供水系统程序.

一笔3.8万美元的贷款将向Tualatin Valley Water District提供，并向俄勒冈州希尔斯伯勒市的2.51亿美元贷款贷款，该贷款已合作。水区发言人安德里亚·沃森（Andrea Watson）表示，其贷款将于8月2日结束，希尔斯伯勒（Hillsboro）贷款于8月16日结束。

EPA’s action represents the first time that it has approved more than one WIFIA loan for a project.

The city of Beaverton, Ore., on July 1 joined the water district and Hillsboro as another partner in the project but it isn’t involved in the loans.

多相计划将包括摄入设施，大约30英里的管道，距离48英寸。至72英寸。[查看程序地图和时间表这里.]

施工始于2016年秋季，到目前为止，已经完成了一些元素，包括一些管道细分市场。

供水计划发言人Marlys Mock说：“我们打算在2026年完成。”她补充说：“大部分建筑正在进行未来几年，在2024年之后结束。”

Stantec正在为该计划提供建筑管理服务。

The project will include seismic protections, to make the infrastructure more resilient.

Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.) said in a statement, “In Northwest Oregon, it is a question of when, not if, a Cascadia earthquake will affect our region’s infrastructure.” She is referring to the Cascadia fault, located off the Pacific coast and runs about 621 mi., from northern Vancouver Island, B.C., to northern California.

Mock说，项目官员正在制定地震标准和准则。她说，此外，管道将包括柔性接头和织物包装等地震相关的功能，以防止管道在地震过程中分开。

There also will be seismic monitors in some locations, detect shaking movements and shut valves automatically.

WIFIA was created under the 2014 Water Resources Reform and Development Act but, partly because of small amounts of congressional appropriations, EPA didn’t approve its first loan under the program until April 2018.

但行动已经捡起。俄勒冈州贷款bring EPA’s total WIFIA loans approved to 11, and the program’s total loan volume to about $3 billion.

更正：Hillsboro Wifia贷款将于8月16日结束。