COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL | JULY 16, 2020
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Local project, construction update for the week of July 13
Construction of Safe
Routes to School and
Fillmore stormwater
outfall projects contin-
ue.
The water line crew
has laid approximately
700 feet of new 12-inch
water line. This line will
replace the existing 10-
inch AC water line.
Workers are also in-
stalling
corporation
stops where the new
water services to the in-
dividual residents will
be. Service lines will be
constructed at a later
date.
The crew hit a cou-
ple of the existing water
services and a buried
telephone line, which
caused some inconve-
niences for a few resi-
dents, but the Cottage
Grove Public Works
crew and Century Link
restored water and
phone service.
More water line con-
struction is planned for
the of July 20, which will
be continuing north on
South Fourth Street and
Fillmore Avenue around
Triangle Park.
Wildish
Construc-
tion’s storm drainage
crew proceeded east
across Lincoln Middle
School’s field by lay-
ing approximately 400
feet of the new 27-inch
storm drainage line,
which is replacing an 18-
inch line.
Crews also finish the
access road into and
around the water quality
swale.
A subcontractor be-
gan placing specialized
media/soil to help treat
the storm water before it
enters the Coast Fork of
the Willamette River.
Storm drainage line
installation will continue
as well. It is anticipated
the crew will be crossing
South Fourth Street July
21 or 22 and proceeding
down Fillmore Avenue
to South Seventh Street.
Street excavation has
tary sewer main in
the coming week.
They will start at
Fillmore
Avenue
and proceed south
on South Fourth
Street to Grant Av-
enue. This new line
will replace an old
8-inch main.
New
sanitary
sewer services will
be installed at a
later date after the
new line passes the
required testing.
Also, two trees
were scheduled to
be removed at Lin-
coln Middle School.
Northwest Natu-
ral Gas will contin-
ue to be working
on completing their
relocation work on
South Fourth Street
and will be moving
to Taylor Avenue
and South Eighth
DAMIEN SHERWOOD/COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL
Street once this
South
Fourth Street
been completed around
Triangle Park, the bus section is completed.
If there are concerns,
barn entrance and the
questions
and/or com-
intersection of Grant Av-
enue and South Fourth plaints, please contact
Zach Ireland or Ron
Street.
The street excavation Bradsby at 541-942-
crew will start laying 3349.
a new 10-inch sani-
New grants being offered for small Lane County businesses owners
to eligible businesses.
The cities of Lowell,
Cottage Grove, Creswell,
Florence, and Veneta
have contributed ap-
proximately $60,000 in
additional funds, mak-
ing almost $285,000
available.
Earlier funding pro-
vided by Lane County
Lane County and
Community
Lending
Works (CLW), in part-
nership with the cities of
Coburg, Cottage Grove,
Creswell, Eugene, Flor-
ence, Lowell, Spring-
field, and Veneta, have
been awarded $225,000
from Business Oregon
to be provided as grants
and the partner cities
was used to demonstrate
matching funds in order
to increase the overall
amount of Business Or-
egon’s award.
“Businesses in Lane
County continue to
struggle against the ef-
fects of COVID-19, in-
cluding a sharp decline
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in customers and re-
stricted operations,” said
Lane County’s Commu-
nity & Economic Devel-
opment Manager Austin
Ramirez. “These grants
are intended to help
bridge part of that gap
for small businesses.”
Eligible
businesses
include those with 25
or fewer employees (in-
cluding sole proprietors
and business owners
with Individual Taxpay-
er Identification Num-
bers), and only those
that have been unable to
receive federal CARES
Act funding, including
the Small Business Ad-
ministration’s Paycheck
Protection
Program,
Economic Injury Di-
saster Loan Emergency
Advance program, or
other federal programs
for emergency pandem-
ic funding to date.
These grants will range
from $2,500 to $25,000
to support businesses
directly impacted by the
COVID-19 pandemic.
The amount awarded
will be based on a formu-
la from the State that ac-
counts for employment
size and COVID-19- re-
lated impacts. Business-
es must use the proceeds
for business-related op-
erating expenses.
To be considered
for funding, eligible
businesses must go to
https://communitylend-
ingworks.org/emergen-
cy -grants/ and submit
the registration form.
Eligible
businesses
that pre-registered will
be entered into a ran-
dom lottery and selected
until funding runs out.
Community Lending
Works will then work
with the selected busi-
nesses to complete the
full application.
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