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OLYMPIA–Columbia County Public Hospital District No. 1 will receive $413,000 in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to build spend improve infrastructure for the childcare facility in Dayton.
Columbia County Public Hospital District will use the grant from the USDA’s Community Facilities Program, to renovate a building to create a new childcare facility, Touchet Valley Childcare Center in Dayton.
The USDA is investing over $800 million nationally to build and improve critical infrastructure that will benefit people in rural communities across the country. “Investing in America means bringing big money into small places and that is certainly true here in Washington State,” said Helen Price Johnson, State Director for USDA Rural Development in Washington State. “These investments are going to create safe and quality drinking water and expand access to quality childcare, and that makes a difference for our rural communities.”
The funding advances President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, through rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure and build a clean-energy economy.
Three Washington State communities: Columbia, Thurston, and Yakima Counties, are part of the overall nationwide $800 million “Strengthen Rural Infrastructure and Create Jobs” spending curated through Bidenomics.
Other communities are Thurston County and Yakima County.
In Thurston County, Holiday Valley Water received $357,500 through USDA’s Water and Waste Disposal Loan & Grant program to replace 60-year-old asbestos concrete pipes with poly vinyl chloride (PVC). Holiday Valley Water Association is an existing Group A community water system that was built in the 1960s serving 64 full-time single family residential connections. The Association is installing a new water main line to reduce the amount of maintenance and repair needed on the system. This repair also addresses the environmental issue of water waste due to leakage and the asbestos in the pipes.
Sun Valley Estates Maintenance Association in Yakima County will be awarded a $3.8 million loan/grant combination to install new water mains, meters and valves to replace the current ones that are past their useful life.