Jamestown Receives $525K For Sewer Improvements

Some improvements will soon be coming to the City of Jamestown’s sewer system.

Mayor Lyndon Baines said the state funded $525,000 to rehabilitate lines running through the north end of town.

“We got that last year and we’re going to continue where we left off on the north end of town,” Baines said. “Probably from the United Methodist Church is as far as we can go with this. A majority of our businesses are up there, and on the south end of town we’re getting ready to do our paving project. I don’t want to pave it and have to dig it back up, so I’m just going to do it on the north end.”

Baines said the project would not be possible without funding coming from the Community Development Block Grant Program. A total of 11 Upper Cumberland communities benefited from the program this year.

“Some of the sewer lines have been in here for at least 30 or 40-years. They need to be rehabilitated with more business coming downtown,” Baines said. “We don’t have the big tax base like some of the bigger towns do so we depend on these grants to help get things done.”

Jamestown will match a portion of the grant funding. Baines said he’s hoping to bid out the project by the end of the year.