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| Work Detail | A stretch of leaking sewer line running through Leesburg will soon get the attention it needs now that the city has learned it will be the recipient of a half-million dollars in state funding from the Georgia Department of Community Affairs. Members of the public and the Leesburg City Council were informed at Tuesday night’s council meeting that the DCA had chosen the city’s sewer rehabilitation project to receive $500,000 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding, which is awarded to communities across the state to assist with costly infrastructure projects. Although the city will have to match $50,000 to complete the project, Leesburg City Manager Bob Alexander said that was a small cost to pay to handle a growing problem. “Any time you can get that type of match, you better jump on it,” said Alexander. “It’s something that if we didn’t get this match, the city would have to do it and they’d have to take that out of other local funding sources. That’s a lot of money for a small community.” The scope of the work includes essentially replacing a section of the city’s sewer system in what is known as the Turkey Circle Area. Alexander said the length of sewer line that runs from the Kinchafoonee Drive and Linden Road area south to the Highway 32 bypass is slowly crumbling, which has led to extensive leakage issues. “We actually had a TV camera go through (the) whole line to see what it looks like,” Alexander explained. “There’s a lot of leakage they call I and I, inflow and infiltration. This is kind of a low area so there’s actually water seeping into it. “When you have a lot of water seeping into these sewage lines, it all goes to the sewer plant. When it goes to the sewer plant it just creates more work on the system, (using) more power. It’s just more expensive for everything. Plus, by having leaks in your sewer system, it can work the opposite way, too. You can have things leaking out of it.” According to the preliminary work done by Still Waters Engineering, the Albany firm that helped put the CDBG application together, rehabbing that stretch of line will require replacing 4,100 linear feet of 8-inch gravity sewer line, improving or creating numerous manholes, replacing sidewalks and driveways, and installing 2,880 linear feet of 4-inch PVC sewer service line. Additionally the project will include rehabilitating an existing pump station behind Hardee’s that Alexander called “obsolete.” The announcement that Leesburg’s project has been chosen for the CDBG funding marks the second time in the past two years that the DCA deemed a Leesburg project worthy. In 2014, the community received $455,822 in CDBG funding for a water system project. “That’s back-to-back CDBGs for you guys, so that’s great,” said Still Waters CEO Chad Griffin. “It’s a very good project and in my opinion one of the best ones we worked this year.” Alexander said the CDBG funding will be presented to the city during a recipients’ meeting in Savannah in October, and then Still Waters will begin doing the engineering work. The construction work on the project will be bid out some time after that. Alexander said DCA allows roughly a year for the construction to be done. The funding Leesburg will receive is just a small portion of the $37.7 million in CDBG grants that are being awarded to 74 communities throughout the state. According to the DCA’s website, 68 Georgia communities will receive $33.3 million in CDBG funds for infrastructure improvements and neighborhood revitalization. Another $4.3 million in Employment Incentive Program and Redevelopment Fund dollars are being awarded to 11 Georgia communities. The EIP and RDF funding is geared toward economic development projects that are projected to create 511 jobs and leverage $86.7 million in private investment throughout the state. The DCA’s CDBG programs are funded by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. Other Southwest Georgia communities receiving CDBG funding this year include: — Arlington, $500,000 for sewer improvements — Blakely, $500,000 for sewer improvements — Boston, $500,000 for street and drainage improvements — Bronwood, $500,000 for street and drainage improvements — Cairo, $500,000 for street and drainage improvements — Camilla, $494,401 for water improvements — Donalsonville, $500,000 for water improvements — Oglethorpe, $500,000 for neighborhood revitalization — Pelham, $500,000 for sewer improvements — Perry, $500,000 for neighborhood improvements — Poulan, $500,000 for water improvements — Thomas County, $500,000 for street and drainage improvements — Tift County, $500,000 for street and drainage improvements — Tifton, $500,000 for drainage improvements — TyTy, $500,000 for street and drainage improvements |
| Country | United States , Northern America |
| Industry | Construction |
| Entry Date | 15 Oct 2016 |
| Source | http://www.albanyherald.com/news/local/leesburg-to-get-cdbg-funding-for-sewer-rehab/article_baad16cf-ae14-5d6a-9623-de6d71afc2e7.html |
