Five CDAP grants awarded
Comments (...)Five Bureau County communities will receive federal funding for infrastructure projects through Community Development Assistance Program (CDAP) grants, totaling $1.75 million.
In a breakdown of the grants:
• Arlington will receive a $350,000 CDAP grant for improvements to its water treatment plant.
• Malden has been awarded a $350,000 CDAP grant for water treatment plant and main improvements.
• Neponset has also received a $350,000 CDAP grant for improvements to its water treatment plant.
• Sheffield will use its $350,000 grant to install new water mains and to replace two failing lift stations.
• Wyanet will receive a $350,000 CDAP grant for sewer system improvements.
As reported earlier in the Bureau County Republican,Wyanet Mayor Bruce Hand said the primary part of the improvement project will focus on sewer line repair work underneath the East Main Street railroad tracks by Walnut Street. The remainder of the project will focus on sleeve repair work in other areas of town. The CDAP grant does require the village to borrow about $114,000 for its share of the project cost, Hand said.
On Monday, Sheffield Mayor Bill Rosenow said the Sheffield project will include replacing 495 feet of water main in the northwest corner of town and also replacing two lift stations, one on the west side of town and one on the south side.
Sheffield's cost share of the project is $75,000, which the village board has approved obtaining through the People's Bank in Sheffield, Rosenow said. Chamlin and Associates, engineers for the project, should be ready to go out for bids on the project in the near future, the mayor said.
The $1.75 million in total CDAP money for Bureau County is part of an $18.8 million federal funding project announced last week by Gov. Pat Quinn. The Bureau County communities are among the 59 small and rural communities statewide to be named recipients of the CDAP grants.
According to Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) Director Warren Ribley, the grants will help the communities provide safe drinking water, as well as reliable water supply and sanitation systems, to those communities, while also creating construction jobs to support the needed infrastructure upgrades and improvements. The upgrades will set the stage for future economic development for those communities, Ribley said.
Working with the Bureau County communities in the grant writing process has been the North Central Illinois Council of Governments (NCICG).
On Monday, NCICG spokesperson Nora Fesco Ballerine said the majority of the local communities are waiting to receive their grant agreements with the state in order to go forward with finalizing the design and bidding process. However, Neponset has already gone out for bids and has submitted their bids to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, another agency through which Neponset is receiving funding, Ballerine said.
The CDAP grant recipient communities have 24 month from the date of the grant award to complete their projects. Each community has to put in a minimum of 25 percent of the project cost.
Last year, the NCICG worked with the villages of Ladd and DePue for CDAP grants for public infrastructure projects in those communities. This year, having five Bureau County communities named as grant recipients is great for Bureau County, not only with the great influx of money into the county but also with job creation, Ballerine said.
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