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Sewer rates will be impact by grants
(Clinton) -- Recent grants should be some good news for sewer rates
Clinton City officials are still working to find funding to help reduce the cost to the citizens of a new waste water treatment plant and received some good news on that topic this week.
Public works director Gary Shellhorn says the city has received confirmation of a couple of federal grants totaling $868,000 for the new plant.
Recently the city received 2-point-5 million dollars from the state for the new plant.
Bids for the new plant, estimated to cost $55-million dollars, will be opened this week. Shellhorn says there has been strong interest in the project and the consulting engineers expect competitive bids on the project.
Shellhorn says those types of things add up that will have some impact on lowering the sewer rates that citizens are paying. He says the $3.3 million may not sound like much when compared to the overall project, but will come 'right off the top' of the cost and can have some impact on the sewer rates.
The public works director says the bids on the plant are scheduled to be presented to the council on March 9th. At that meeting, Shellhorn says the consultants will also present and updated rate plan taking into consideration the recent grants and the construction bids.
Shellhorn and Mayor Rodger Holm say they are also lobbying for a federal appropriation of $6.8-million for the plant that can help offset some of the cost. A trip scheduled for last week was cancelled due to the snow in Washington. The mayor says that trip to meet with federal officials about the grant has been rescheduled for next week.
Written 2/15/2010 by Dave Vickers - KROS News
