Richfield's broken and deteriorating sewer lines will get emergency repairs and upgrading through a $150,000 grant approved by the Utah Community Impact Board.
Mayor Paul Lyman has announced the city was approved for that amount after requesting $159,500 from the CIB. City officials planned to match the grant with $140,500 raised from sales of city properties.Total cost of the project will be about $300,000. Lyman said board members agreed to fund a maximum of 50 percent of the project.
The mayor said sewer lines that are in critical need of repair are in the central and eastern sectors of the city.
The mayor also wants a minimum of $50,000 included in future city budgets for maintenance and upgrading of other sewer lines to prevent a repeat of the critical need for immediate repairs.
The application for the grant was filed in December after the council sold two parcels of city-owned land and approved an option for the sale of a third property.
The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources bought 154 acres for $75,460 for a wildlife refuge. The council also approved an option for the purchase of another 132 acres for $64,540, the division posting $2,000 for the option right.
The third parcel was sold to Dennis Jorgensen and included 10.34 acres east of the Cove View Municipal Golf Course. The council furthermore approved the proposed sale of six acres to Paul Turner for property located near the debris basin north of the city.