Published: November 19, 2009 07:25 am      

Manistee to receive $2.2M in federal funds

ONEKAMA -- More than $2.2 million in federal funds is headed to the Manistee County community of Onekama for improving its wastewater treatment system.

The village will receive a $1,050,000 loan and a $1,187,000 grant through the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development Water and Environmental Program. The money is part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Six rural Michigan communities were awarded almost $31.5 million in grants and loans to improve their water and sewer systems, including Mackinac Island, which received more than $10 million to upgrade its municipal sewer.