Columbia gets $1 million more for Bear Creek pump station work

Columbia won another $1 million in state grant money for the Bear Creek Pike Pump Station, on top of $4.8 million it already had for the work, so the state's share is now $5.8 million. The station has flooded again and again over the years, so the city is moving it out of the flood zone and putting in new equipment. It serves parts of downtown, the interstate area and the Bear Creek corridor.