The Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity (DCEO) announced Wednesday the recipients of the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) for public infrastructure.
Forty communities across the state will receive federal funds totaling $15.3 million. These grants will help Illinois' lower-income communities undertake much-needed public infrastructure projects such as water, sanitary system and sewer enhancements that become the backbone of future growth and economic development.
In Randolph County, the Village of Percy will receive a $359,000 grant for water main replacement on the west side of town and in Perry County (Ill.), the City of Pinckneyville will receive $364,647 for sanitary sewer transmission main replacement.
"It will be replacing the old cast iron mains from the railroad tracks in the center of town going west to the edge of town," said Percy Mayor Mark Prange. "It was just a week ago that we found out and there's a lot of preliminary work to do.
"Hopefully, it will happen this summer."
Prange noted this was the third year the village had applied for a DCEO grant and village officials are happy to receive it.
"For the village to do it on its own financially would be a pretty big burden," he said.
