The Missouri Department of Natural Resources is funneling a $50,000 grant to the city of Barnard, intending to prop up its wastewater system review. In a move to keep the clean water flowing and stormwater out, this Clean Water Engineering Report Grant will give Barnard the means to gauge what improvements the current system sorely needs.
For Barnard, the main objectives with this cash injection are clear: to maintain the level of service the community relies upon, ensure they're meeting permit requirements, and critically, to reduce potentially problematic inflow and infiltration of stormwater. In a statement obtained by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, the facility plan stemming from this project is slated to be done by April 2026.
Dru Buntin, the director of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, spoke to the heart of the matter, "This grant helps qualified communities of all sizes pay for wastewater treatment system improvements that they might not have been able to undertake otherwise." Buntin continued, "We are here to help Missouri communities plan and fund infrastructure improvements that will help protect public and environmental health, and help improve the quality of life for Missourians."
Assisting Missouri's locales with their water and wastewater conundrums is a mantle the department has taken up. The Financial Assistance Center, it's on a mission to offer up a buffet of funding opportunities for communities to tap into, to directly enhance their water quality, wastewater, and drinking water frameworks. The funds for Barnard will come, wholly or in part, from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's coffers.
