MEXICO, N.Y. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded the Village of Mexico in Oswego County a $19,000 grant to study methods of improving its “aging water system.”
The USDA’s rural-development grant program provided the funding, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D–N.Y.) and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D–N.Y.) said in a news release.
The Village of Mexico will use the funding to prepare a preliminary funding-estimate study, which will offer “solutions” to problems facing its aging water system. The village’s water system is estimated to be 100 years old, the lawmakers said.
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The study will also analyze different funding options to address water storage-tank failure and other issues facing the aging water-distribution system.
“With this funding, the Village of Mexico will have the resources it needs to plan out the best way to upgrade its water system,” Gillibrand said in the release.
The USDA rural-development program provided this funding through the water and waste-disposal predevelopment-planning grants program. It assists low-income communities with funding to help to pay for costs associated with developing a complete application for USDA rural development water & waste disposal direct loan/grant and loan-guarantee programs.
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