Seymour Gets Small Cities Funding For Infrastructure

State Rep. Len Greene, R‑105, applauded news that Seymour will receive funding through the Small Cities grant program for infrastructure improvements on Brother’s Court and Chamberlain Road. 

The State of Connecticut on Friday awarded grants totaling $12,342,000 to 28 municipalities, including $500,000 for Seymour.

The grant will be used for improvements that include reconstruction of sanitary sewer laterals, drainage improvements, and road reconstruction.

First Selectman Paul Roy and the Seymour Board of Selectmen submitted the application for the grant. Roy advised the Seymour Board of Finance Oct. 25 that the grant had been awarded.

Due to the constant flooding resulting from a faulty sewer system in that neighborhood, residents were plagued with a number of issues that prevented them from fully accessing their homes and driveways, particularly when the temperature fell below freezing,” Greene said. School buses and emergency service vehicles, not to mention private vehicles, could not access the houses on the streets because of the amount of ice that regularly formed. “

These funds will go a long way toward addressing a very important public safety issue in that neighborhood and will allow residents to access their homes without such concerns moving forward, Greene said. I’m very happy to have helped the town acquire this grant,” he said.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Small Cities Community Development Block Grant Program provides grants to eligible municipalities for economic development, affordable housing, community facilities and other revitalization projects. The state’s Department of Economic and Community Development administers the program.

Greene represents the 105th district covering Seymour, Beacon Falls and Ansonia.

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