JASPER, Tenn. – Marion County Mayor David Jackson said this week the county would apply for a $525,000 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development grant to bring water to rural sites at the north end of Alvin C. York Highway.
“We’ve got several people that don’t have water or bad wells, sulfur wells and stuff,” Jackson said. “This water will come out from the city of Dunlap, [Tenn.].”
The Community Development Block Grant comes with a $100,000 matching funds requirement.
Marion applied for the grant last year, but didn’t get it. The $100,000 in matching funds would come out of the county’s infrastructure fund, Jackson said.
“We have folks in the county’s rural areas that are without city water,” Commissioner Don Adkins said. “At this time, we [the board’s finance committee] feel it would be a wise decision for us to approve this CDBG grant as presented.”