The Missouri Department of Natural Resources has awarded a $62,500 grant to the city of Moberly to develop a facility plan for evaluating the feasibility of constructing a sewer connection between Orton Lane residents and the city’s wastewater treatment system.

The grant will fund all of the eligible costs to develop the facility plan, which is expected to be completed by December 2025.

The department’s Clean Water State Revolving Fund Regionalization Incentive Grant is a competitive grant program that offers competitive funding to municipalities as an incentive to construct connections for small, struggling facilities. These facilities typically serve such a small number of connections that the cost to comply with permit conditions is a significant financial challenge for the users.

This project will be funded wholly or in part with funds received from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.