MIDDLEBURGH - At their year-end meeting in December, Middleburgh village board members approved Delaware Engineering to do a study on extending sewer lines in the Grove Street neighborhood and mitigating Inflow and Infiltration of the existing sewer collection system. 

The Village received a $50,000 grant from New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation (EFC) to conduct the study with a $10,000 village match.

The project has qualified for funding from the NYS Environmental Facilities Corporation (EFC) Engineering Planning Grant program.

Proposals were reviewed and selected based on technical skills, relevant project experience and knowledge of EFC grant/loan-funded projects. 

Village officials are hoping to expand the sewer system in order to lower the cost to users. The actual expansion would require another, and much larger, grant. The sewer plant has enough capacity to add new users.