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loan without interest.
“What it means is the State Water Control Board is really anxious for us to put this in,” Leggett said.
“They want to get the Rush River clean, and this will do it,” he said. “And that in turn will help prevent the drainage into the Chesapeake Bay.”
The loan program was established by the commonwealth to help counties and localities that need to build or upgrade their sewage and wastewater treatment facilities. Such projects carry steep construction costs that can be a challenge for rural communities to pay.
Hayden said the program usually doles out more than $200 million in loans annual
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