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Tiny Drummond says $8.35 million wastewater overhaul depends on MSAP grant, town clerk tells subcommittee
Summary
Town officials told the House subcommittee that an awarded Montana Coal Endowment Program (MSAP) grant is essential to an $8.35 million lagoon upgrade intended to stop leakage and meet DEQ discharge rules; applicants say they have secured some funding but are awaiting final loan and grant commitments.
Robin Wright, clerk and treasurer for the town of Drummond, told the House Appropriations Subcommittee F that her town of about 271 people cannot complete an $8,350,000 wastewater upgrade without the MSAP grant the 2023 legislature awarded.
Wright outlined the project’s scope: sludge removal from a single‑cell facultative lagoon, construction of a three‑cell configuration, installation of an impermeable liner (two leakage studies showed substantial leakage), and ultraviolet treatment before discharge as required by the Department of Environmental Quality. She said the…
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