Hampton in planning stages for repairs to Spring and Squaw Creeks

By: 
Ethan Stoetzer

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Clean Water State Revolving Fund to aid in project funding
     The Hampton City Council is in the process of planning a watershed improvement project on Squaw and Spring Creeks. Hampton Public Works Director Doug Tarr said that the project is 30 percent designed.
     The project is a Water Resource Restoration sponsored project, which achieves funding through the city’s water treatment facility project. To complete the waste water treatment facility, the city bonded approximately $6.3 million from the Clean Water State Revolving Fund, which allows the interest incurred on the loan to be set aside in an account that can be used on state approved watershed projects. According to SEH, Inc., of Mason City, the city has approximately $633,000 available, due to the bonded amount.
     SEH compiled approximately $1.4 million in projects that can be done to address the creeks that include: stream corridor stabilization along the cemetery, East Park and Harriman Park; Bioswale/bioretention by the middle school; Beeds Lake sedimentation Control; flood plain buyout and native landscaping.
     Read the full article in the September 28 edition of the Hampton Chronicle.

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