MATTAWAN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — State Rep. Beth Griffin of Mattawan has announced that the village of Mattawan has been approved to use $698,000 in leftover Stormwater, Asset Management, and Wastewater (SAW) funds to design a new wastewater treatment facility.
Previously, Mattawan had been awarded an SAW grant in 2017 to clean the main connecting their village to Kalamazoo.
Normally, any unexpended funds from that grant would be returned to the state. However, Mattawan has since been given approval to use the funds to design a new wastewater treatment facility.
If the funds hadn’t been approved by the state, the village would have had to borrow funds from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for the project.
“By working together, we were able to gain approval to transfer this grant money to a new project, saving the village of Mattawan hundreds of thousands of dollars,” Griffin said. “Thank you to EGLE for taking this common-sense approach and to village officials for their efforts to seize this opportunity.”
The SAW program is overseen by the Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) and is meant to provide grant assistance for the development of wastewater and stormwater-related projects.
