At the monthly meeting of Community Board 5 on Wednesday at Christ the King H.S., Gary Giordano announced that the Department of Environmental Protection will be upgrading the sewer lines under 69th Street from Calamus Avenue to Queens Boulevard, with the project beginning sometime near the end of the month.

“This is a $20 million plus project,” Giordano said.

One of the challenges to the project, according to Giordano, is that, “Con Ed’s got a lot of electrical lines to move up there.”

Giordano also mentioned a planned $7 million sewer renovation project that will come to Glendale soon. He said members of CB5 met with DEP about the need for a more accommodating sewer system shortly after storms caused significant flooding on Aug. 8, 2007. In that meeting, the agency told him and his colleagues they were working towards upgrading the system from the bottom up, and there would likely be no work completed in Middle Village until at least 2015.

“Glendale is connected to, I believe, or flows to three different sewage treatment plants,” Giordano explained, saying that this situation made the system in Glendale more complicated than other systems in the area.

While he was appreciative of the efforts made to alleviate sewage flow issues in CB5 to date, he looks forward to the day when DEP comes up with a long-term plan.

“They’ve cleaned out a lot of the sewer lines, the catch basins, but they have not yet found a permanent solution,” Giordano said.