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Board members receiving check
from USDA/RD
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Wildwood
The Wildwood Community sewer project has been
funded by USDA-Rural Development. This is a 75% grant and 25% loan
for a total of about $1.2 million.
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Redland Estates Subdivision
- Angelina, Co.
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Redland Estates
The Redland Estates sewer treatment system
has been funded and construction should begin within the next twelve
months. Thirty-seven homes are currently on the collection system
but this new wetland treatment system will allow for new development.
Redland Water is the utility.
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Shelbyville community meeting
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Shelbyville
The Shelbyville community and school are
working jointly to build a wastewater treatment system. A feasibility
study was prepared by Jimmy Owens with Goodwin Lasiter and Associates.
They are pursuing various funding sources.
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ORCA meeting at Rolling Hills
- Shelby Co.
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Rolling Hills
Rolling Hills has been approved for a 100%
STEP grant for a new water system. This is a self help grant from
the Office of Rural Community Affairs (ORCA) in which the local
residents will do much of the work themselves.
SEP
SEP allows organizations being fined by Texas
Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to direct the money to
a local project with direct environmental benefits. A unit of government
can give 100 percent of the fine back to the community and private
entities can give 50 percent. This program had funded more than
$2 million a year through RC&Ds statewide since Pineywoods RC&D
started the program in 1999. To date Pineywoods RC&D has administered
over $300,000 in SEP funds. These funds were used to cleanup illegal
trash dumps, cleanup abandoned tire sites, host household hazardous
waste collection days, and repair failing onsite sewer systems for
low income families in Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Gregg, Houston,
Nacogdoches, Rusk, Sabine, Shelby and Trinity Counties.
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Abandoned tires - Anderson
Co.
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Illegal trash cleanup
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LDP sewer installation
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