The City of DeKalb is investing more than $3 million into the city’s water and sewer main lines, officials said.
The project began as a requirement of the State of Texas with the widening of US Highway 82, said DeKalb Mayor Lowell Walker.
The project is funded by the remaining money from a $2 million US Economic Development Administration grant and nearly $400,000 the city received in 2021 from the American Rescue Plan Act as well as a Texas State Infrastructure Bank loan. “When COVID hit, I foresaw the inflation of mathem terial pricing. I knew there were some projects that the city was going to be completing in the coming years so I was able to work out a deal and the city took out a $1.2 million Texas State Infrastructure Bank loan at 2.02%. That money has just been sitting in the bank waiting for us to start a project,” Walker said.
