Council seeks funds to upgrade sewer plant

The long-discussed Havre wastewater system improvement project took another step forward Monday night, as the Havre City Council approved applications for a few different funding sources to cover the nearly $9 million project.

The whole $8,966,411 will be split, the city hopes, between federal, state and local funds, some granted and some loaned, but almost all dependent on approval by the respective bodies.

The proposal approved last night relies mostly on $7,841,411 from the U. S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development program. Thirty percent of that would, hopefully, be simply grante...