Birdseye receives $750,000 grant to support sanitary sewer improvements

The Town of Birdseye was the recipient of $750,000 from the Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs in federal grant funding to make needed improvements to the town’s sanitary sewer system.

The grant, along with $350,000 from Dubois County and a $200,000 loan, will be used to fund major components of the project, including rehabilitating manholes and mains, installing an emergency bypass connection at a lift station and dredging lagoons. This project will address critical compliance and health and safety concerns and allow the town to add new connections to its system–they have been under a temporary ban until the improvements are made.

Indiana Region 15 assisted the town in the application process.

Bid packages on the project are expected to be released in December.