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Officials with the Jamestown Sanitary District hope to get funds from a federal grant program to replace some of the district’s sewer lines. The district, with help from Tuolumne County, is applying for more than $973,000 through the federal Community Development Block Grant program to fund a large improvement project for Jamestown’s aging pipes. The funds, if approved, would go toward 10 sections of sewer pipes around town, some of which were left over from another sewer line improvement project that wrapped up in 2009. “We feel (the amount requested) should take care of just about everything,” said Patti Ingalls, district financial officer.
According the proposal, work would take place along Highway 108, Humbug Street, Donovan Street, Fifth Avenue, Sixth Avenue, Seventh Street and in the Mother Lode West subdivision. The Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors last week approved an application to the Community Development Block Grant that includes the Jamestown district’s request. The application is currently being reviewed, and the program is competitive. Ingalls said they think that they will know what other applicants are proposing by August or September. If the application is approved, the district would be looking at construction in January 2014. Ingalls said during a district Board of Directors meeting on Thursday that district officials are remaining optimistic and will do what they can to have the district ready to move forward when the awards are announced. “This is a very good, healthy application,” she said. |