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Fulton seeking grant to extend water service The Clarke County Commission voted Tuesday to apply for a Community Development Block grant to provide water for more residents in the Town of Fulton. The project will affect 35 homes and three churches, Fulton Mayor Mike Norris said Monday. It is an area right outside the town limits including Northeast Main Street, east of Scotch Lumber Company. The Town of Fulton has recently completed its sanitary sewer project and is already providing sewer to the proposed area, he said. Janey Galbraith, grant consultant with Galbraith and Associates of Mobile, and Goodwin, Mills and Cawood architects of Montgomery, are preparing the grant application for the Town of Fulton and the Fulton Utility Board. Deadline for the application is May 15. There is a maximum of $400,000 that could be provided through the grant, she told the commission on Monday. There will be no cost to the county. Fulton will provide the matching funds. A public hearing on the project will likely be held in the future at a church in the proposed area in Fulton. With this project, the county would not be able to apply for CDBG funding until 2010, Galbraith said. Commissioners Paul Bradford and Rhondel Rhone expressed concern that funding sources be found for water projects in north Clarke County. In particular, the Finley's Crossing community needs water service.
"We have logistic problems getting water to Finley's Crossing," she said. "Until Thomasville completes their new treatment plant, we really can't serve them."
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