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Loan: $256,200 |
Outline of Need: The City of Kulm has a population of 422. Residents and businesses of the city currently use sewer mains of vitrified clay pipe, which allows infiltration into their sanitary sewer system. There has been a severe infiltration problem, and because of a high water table, this has caused sewage to back up into numerous homes and businesses resulting in a dangerous health hazard. |
How Rural Development Helped:
This is a three-phase project. Phase I was the construction of a new lagoon. We currently are in Phase II, and Phase III will be constructed in 2004. Rural Development funds will be used to finance the cost of the old vitrified clay tile sewer main throughout the City of Kulm. In Phase I, Rural Development provided a loan for $690,000 and a grant for $380,999 and has collaborated with the Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) a ND State Health Department fund, which provided $220,000. In Phase II, the current phase, Rural Development provided a loan for $256,200 and a grant for $703,800, and partnered with the Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) which provided $83,000 and ND State Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG) which provided $52,000.
The estimated cost for Phase III is $1,350,000, which we anticipate funding in fiscal year 2004.
The Results:
The new lagoon and the replacement of old sewer lines will remove the dangerous health hazard on the city. Environmental and economic improvements will also occur as a result of the new lagoon and sewer lines preventing the wastewater from running into the bordering wetlands.
Pictured, above: (L) Kulm Veterans of War, surrounded by local schoolchildren, plant a tree to honor those serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom and who served in Operation Desert Storm; (R) Rural Development North Dakota State Director Clare Carlson (right) presents a check to City of Kulm Mayor Eugene Taszarek.
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