Mayor secures grant funds for first phase of sewer upgrades
Mayor Bondurant, right, and Mayor Pro-Tem Jim Johnson show off grant funds
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey presented Flomaton Mayor Dewey Bondurant, Jr., with a ceremonial $350,000 check that will be used to finance the first phase of a rehabilitation project on the town's sewage lagoon, located on Martin Luther King Drive.
Bondurant said the total estimate to make the needed repairs on the lagoon is about $800,000 but feels confident he can get the funds to complete the project. In the first phase with the $350,000 grant the town will have to match that with $70,000 in local funds.
The money to Flomaton is coming from a Community Development Block Grant that will be administe...
