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Hague wins $228,000 water-quality grant for salt-storage shed; town gets two other planning awards
Summary
The Town of Hague announced a $228,000 Water Quality Improvement Project grant for a town salt-storage shed, a nonpoint-source planning award of up to $50,000 for Hay Brook, and $90,000 to develop a Local Waterfront Revitalization Program; the grants carry required town matches.
The Town of Hague announced three state grants that together fund infrastructure and planning work tied to water quality and the waterfront.
Chair (speaker 2) told the board the town was selected for a $228,000 Water Quality Improvement Project (WQIP) grant intended to support a salt-storage shed, and that the award requires a 25 percent town match of $57,000. "The New York State DEC Water Quality Improvement Project provides important support to communities to protect and restore water resources," the chair said. He also said the town was selected for up to $50,000 through a nonpoint-source planning grant for Hay Brook (the grant calls for a 10 percent match of $5,000) and for $90,000 through the Consolidated Funding Application to develop a Local Waterfront Revitalization Program (LWRP) with a $22,500 match from the town.
The WQIP award is tied to the town’s salt-storage plan; the chair said the LWRP will ‘‘describe existing conditions, outline issues, and provide an implementation roadmap for the town’s policies, initiatives, and projects’’ around Lake George and the land surrounding Haig Brook. The nonpoint-source planning grant is intended to support nutrient-planning efforts for Hay Brook.
Board members framed the awards as enabling infrastructure and planning work already under discussion: the salt-storage shed proposals presented earlier in the meeting were explicitly tied to the WQIP funding and to the town’s need to store dry road materials to avoid runoff. The town must approve local matches and budget codes before disbursing funds; the board voted later in the meeting to create the necessary budget codes for garage and grant-related work.
Next steps identified at the meeting include circulating the salt-shed cost estimates to the board (Chad will provide them) and establishing the local matching budgets required by each grant. The board also set a special informational meeting for Feb. 19 on a separate item (a length-of-service award for volunteers) but did not set a timeline for final decisions on grant contracts.
