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Planning director outlines five-year coordinated infrastructure plan to reduce duplication and stretch CHIPS dollars

3409388 · May 20, 2025
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Lewis County planning staff presented a fluid five-year infrastructure plan focused on coordinating roadway, drainage, water and Complete Streets projects across villages and towns to reduce duplicate work and leverage grant funding.

Cassandra Buell, Lewis County director of planning and community development, presented a five-year coordinated infrastructure plan intended to align municipal water, wastewater and roadway projects with county roadway and drainage work to save costs and leverage grant funding.

Buell said the initiative grew from legislators' direction to reduce duplicative efforts where towns and the county were separately engineering and constructing adjacent or sequential projects. The plan identifies priority communities, coordinates engineering schedules, and pursues state and federal…

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