BELLE RIVE, IL — The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency says Belle Rive is among several Illinois communities that will see part of $1 million in grant funding to help unsewered communities with inadequate or nonexistent wastewater collection and treatment systems. The Unsewered Communities Planning Grant Program will assist small and disadvantaged communities to develop project plans that identify solutions to wastewater collection and treatment needs.

Belle Rive will receive $27,500.

Information from the Project Plans may also be used to apply for a grant from the Unsewered Communities Construction Grant Program (UCCGP), which was also announced by Illinois EPA in September 2020. Over the next five years, the Illinois EPA UCCGP is making $100 million available through the Rebuild Illinois Capital Plan for construction of wastewater collection and/or treatment facilities.