“This money means everything to our town,” Hayneville Mayor Jimmy Davis said. “I am overjoyed for our residents who have had to go without adequate sewer service, but will soon get a sewer system they deserve.”
A small community in Alabama’s Black Belt is getting $10 million to repair a failing sewer system that residents say has been holding the town back for decades.
Lance LeFleur, director of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, said the funding will make a difference in the lives of the residents, many of whom live in places where traditional septic tank systems don’t work because of the soil. “We estimate that there are more than 30,000 homes that have failing or non-existent wastewater treatment,” LeFleur said. “And that’s a conservative estimate.”
“We constantly get work orders for septic tank problems, every day,” he said. “Hopefully this will improve a lot of it and free up some labor for us to do other things.” Of that total, $225 million came Alabama’s ARPA funding was allocated for water and sewer projects by Gov. Kay Ivey and the Alabama Legislature last year. ADEM also expects to receive a total of $765 million in BIL funding over the next five years.to water and sewer systems around the state, with a special focus on the areas that show the greatest need. But those projects only reflect the water systems in the more dire need, LeFleur said.
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