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| Knoxville Has Stimulus Projects, Too |
The bailout money to be signed into law Tuesday by President Obama may not be in time for a couple projects almost ready to take place in Knoxville but may still fund a couple others.
The Knoxville City Council Tuesday night approved six sewers in town to be relined, finishing their sewer project and also considered engineering for sludge bed covers. Both projects are expected to be bid out to groups later but the council brought asked City Engineer Steve Bruner if the projects could be funded by the stimulus package money coming to Illinois.
Bruner said the manhole cover relining might be too overwhelming; but, he says he's not sure how the government will dole out the money from projects but he wants the council to be ready to act.
"I bet there's going to be way more projects asked for than they've got money," Bruner said. "I don't know how the process is going to work, but I know one thing: what's going to get funded first is what's ready to be built this summer."
The council and Bruner have submitted four projects to the EPA to be considered for federal loan money, including a repainting of the exterior tank on the water tower, the sludge bed building for the sewer plant, and repainting deteriorating steel at that plant.
Bruner told the council the loans will come from the federal government to the Illinois E.P.A. who then turns around and lends that out through their revolving loan fund at a zero percent interest rate over twenty years time. |
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| 02 16 09 by Newsroom |
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