Bessemer City, N.C., is receiving a $4.9 million loan and a $3.2 million grant to improve its water treatment plant and related facilities. The city will add 1,290 linear feet of water line and 2,375 linear feet of gravity sewer line. It also will install 12 manholes along an unstable stream bed to replace the deteriorated sewer line. The improvements will increase the reliability of the water treatment process and improve water quality.

The Village of Maine, Wis., is receiving a $515,000 loan and a $965,000 grant to upgrade the wastewater collection system. Deteriorating manholes will be repaired or replaced, and the Everest Avenue lift station will be relocated. Sewers on the east side of the village will be replaced with new PVC piping, and the manholes will be replaced with ones made out of precast concrete. These improvements will significantly decrease infiltration and inflow into the collection system.

The town of Barre in Orleans County, N.Y., has been approved for a $500,000 loan and a $601,000 grant to extend public water service to 31 residential customers who have wells that lack safe, potable water. Installing water mains will provide reliable water service to the residents as well as adequate fire protection.