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Morris Service Authority wins $4.589 million principal forgiveness, seeks $15 million more for solids-handling project

5810762 · August 8, 2025
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Morris Service Authority reported a $4,589,000 principal forgiveness award and a $241,000 low-interest loan for a solids-handling and storage rehabilitation project; officials outlined equipment failures, redundancy improvements, a $3 million Route 11 waterline contract and purchase of McNamara property for a new river intake site.

Charles Alligood, a Morris Service Authority (MSA) board member, told the Lexington City Council that the MSA received $4,589,000 in principal forgiveness and a $241,000 low-interest loan for a solids-handling and storage rehabilitation project at the MSA wastewater plant. The board is continuing to seek about $15 million more to fully fund the larger plant modernization program.

The principal forgiveness and loan cover a first-phase solids-handling project, Alligood said, and the MSA has contracted engineering for the work. "MSA is fortunate we received a principal forgiveness of almost $5,000,000 ... and so this particular project has to do with the solids handling," Alligood said. He said the engineering loan amount for the solids study is currently about $2,400 (transcript: "that that project is right now about 2.4 a thousand 2.4 thousands, for a loan for doing the…

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