NorthEscambia.com reports the Century Town Council has been working on its own wish list for the Obama Stimulus Package:
$1.7 million to increase the elevated tank capacity to 500,000 gallons and install water mains to provide adequate water pressure to underserved residents along Backwoods Road.
$1.9 million is also on the wish list for drainage improvements along North Century Boulevard. A portion of the highway flooded during Hurricane Georges.
$40,000 to replace aging natural gas meters
$75,000 to install a flow meter to ensure adequate billing to the Century Correctional Institute
$500,000 to improve drainage in the Dogwood Lane area
$100,000 to improve the water system along Fannie Road
$1 million to clear and regrade existing clogged drainage ways to improve flow and reduce upstream flooding
$1.5 million to relocate about 6,000 feet of exisiting 6-inch gas main from under Highway 29 to the right-of-way
$360,000 miscellaneous improvements to the town’s wastewater treatment plant.
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