West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice held a virtual ceremony to announce the award of 19 grants, worth $13,734,817 in federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds, which have been dedicated to various water/sewer, broadband, demolition, and park improvement projects to communities in 14 counties across the state. The allocations locally include:
Hampshire
County Commission (Hampshire
County)
Amount: $2,000,000
Title:
Hampshire County Commission’s Southwestern Water Extension
Project
Purpose: The project will extend water
service along US Route 220 from Hardy County line north, including
Old Mountain Road, Huffman Road, and Phillip Vincent Road in
Hampshire County. Currently, customers experience a poor quality and
unreliable quantity of drinking water. The project will serve 80 new
customers.
Hampshire
County Commission (Hampshire County)
Amount:
$374,000
Title: Former Hampshire Memorial Hospital
Demolition and Brownfield Abatement Project
Purpose: This
project will consist of demolition and brownfield abatement of the
former Hampshire Memorial Hospital. The structure is no longer
feasible for rehabilitation due to the structure’s current state of
deterioration and environmental contamination.