The Gogebic Range Water Authority has been, over the last six years, seven years, growing by leaps and bounds.

They were under a consent degree from the MDEQ to do something about this problem, that's to build a municipal sewer.

It's extremely critical, due to the fact that the existing septic tanks were built in the early to mid-70s. They have outlived their useful life and started to leak into the groundwater.

Right now we're working on funding for several projects. One is a new water system for Indianhead and a pumping station. They will get some work. Anvil Location in Bessemer Township is going to get a new water system.

There's more to it than really meets the eye. Our area is economically depressed. Our citizenry is becoming young families, low income, and senior citizens, fixed income. Other than Grand View and schools we don't have lots of employers providing good paying jobs.

We're trying to leverage all the outside grant funding we can get.

We did some work on their Tank Hill vault. Quite a few components went into the City of Wakefield.

If we have to build the wells and treatment plant, we're prepared to, but I'm very optimistic that we won't have to go that route.