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Estimating the project would cost about $3 million, Heft said the $500,000 would be combined with money from local businesses. . Heft told Marsh he could assist in bringing appropriate partiesA letter was mailed by Marsh this past November to local businesses informing them that during the past 12 years, the town unsuccessfully applied for several grants for the water line including funding from the USDA Rural Development Program and $2. “It was one of the last grants that I wrote as First Selectman,” Heft said, adding that the town learned the grant was approved in June 2006. “Avenues for additional state or federal funding to complete the project have been exhausted. Selectman Martin Heft said when he was may grant
First Selectman he had applied to the State of Connecticut for the grant to extend the existing waterline from the corner of West Main Street and Bokum Road up to the Industrial Park allowing businesses to expand, have fire service and portableMarsh Wants State Grant to Go to Sewer water. For the project to continue, approximately $2 million in funding from private sources (those who would benefit from the waterline) will be required. In the letter, Marsh reminds businesses that the town is under a Consent Order issued by the DEP requiring the town to develop a solution to the failed septic system in town center. Heft wrote in a letter to Marsh that a Federal grant was applied for in March 2005 and did not qualify on July 25, 2005.CHESTER – A $500,000 Small Town Economic Assistance Program grant designed to extend the town’s water line to the Industrial Park may instead be used for the town’s sewer. I am not optimistic about the possibility of putting together a coalition of business willing to invest $200K-$400K each,” Marsh wrote.5 million in federal funds. Heft claims that the letter had “misinformation on other grants