A multi-million-dollar sanitary sewer project serving a northern Allen County village is set to begin.
Commissioners secured the final piece of funding for the Gomer Sewer Improvement Project with a 1.2-million-dollar loan from the United States Department of Agriculture. That, along with another 2.7 million dollars of federal, state, and local dollars will fund the project at a cost of just under 4-million dollars. The project is being done due to a non-compliance complaint from the EPA concerning water quality nearly 8 years ago. Now that all the funding is in place construction can begin and it will cost property owners less than what was first expected.
Allen County Sanitary Engineer Steve Kayatin explains, “The debt service amount that we originally had communicated to the property owners were based on 3 to 4% borrowing but we’re down to like 1.75%. So that savings directly goes to the property owners.”
Kayatin says that will lower the additional payment for the project added on to the customer’s monthly sewer bill from an anticipated 30-dollars to 20-dollars or less. Construction is expected to begin in February.
