The state government is serving up what Gov. Ned Lamont described Monday as a $4 million “meat and potatoes” grant to replace aging underground utility infrastructure along West Main Street that dates back to the late 1890s. The state funding will enable construction crews to upgrade or replaced approximately 4,440 linear feet water, sanitary, sewer, and storm drainage lines as part of a wider $28.9 million project to redevelop West Main Street between Riverside Street and the Waterbury Green in the heart of downtown. The State Bond Commission in April approved the $4 million allocation that the Community Investment Fund Board approved a month earlier for funding the third phase on the ongoing project to transform the streetscape along West Main Street. Lamont said replacing water and sewer lines is not an exceptionally exciting project, but the aging underground infrastructure dating back to the late 19th Century that this $4 million in state funding will replace is holding back development. He called it a down payment on a new foundation for Waterbury’s future.
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