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NC directs $164M toward infrastructure projects

A water treatment plant in Mocksville will be decommissioned once the city is connected to the Cooleemee Water Treatment Plant. Photo courtesy Town of Mocksville.

North Carolina is awarding $164 million for water and sewer projects around the state. 

Governor Roy Cooper announced on Tuesday that the infrastructure loans and grants are meant as investments to promote equitable access to clean water and strengthen climate initiatives.

Seventy-six projects around the state will receive funding, and several Triad communities will benefit.

About $9 million has been set aside for a Davie County water supply improvement initiative. This will allow for an expansion of the Cooleemee Water Treatment Plant, which will in time be connected with Mocksville. That city's plant will be decommissioned.

Pilot Mountain will receive almost $3 million to replace its aging wastewater collection system.

And in Wilkesboro, a combination of funding and loan forgiveness will allow for a wastewater treatment facility expansion.

The State Water Infrastructure Authority approved all of the funding at a meeting in February.

Neal Charnoff joined 88.5 WFDD as Morning Edition host in 2014. Raised in the Catskill region of upstate New York, he graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1983. Armed with a liberal arts degree, Neal was fully equipped to be a waiter. So he prolonged his arrested development bouncing around New York and L.A. until discovering that people enjoyed listening to his voice on the radio. After a few years doing overnight shifts at a local rock station, Neal spent most of his career at Vermont Public Radio. He began as host of a nightly jazz program, where he was proud to interview many of his idols, including Dave Brubeck and Sonny Rollins. Neal graduated to the news department, where he was the local host for NPR's All Things Considered for 14 years. In addition to news interviews and features, he originated and produced the Weekly Conversation On The Arts, as well as VPR Backstage, which profiled theater productions around the state. He contributed several stories to NPR, including coverage of a devastating ice storm. Neal now sees the value of that liberal arts degree, and approaches life with the knowledge that all subjects and all art forms are connected to each other. Neal and his wife Judy are enjoying exploring North Carolina and points south. They would both be happy to never experience a Vermont winter again.

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