$2 million grant to help Pescadero investigate new sewer system

County officials have gotten a $2 million grant to explore installing a sewer system in Pescadero, reports the County Times.

Pescadero residents would have to form a public utility district to manage the new wastewater plant and would eventually have to pay back 18 percent of the grant with some help from the county, according to Dean Peterson, director of the county’s Environmental Health division. Peterson put the total cost of the project at $2 million to $5 million and said it could be completed as soon as 2010, provided a site could be found for the plant and there was enough community interest to spur it forward.

The new sewer system would improve the town’s ability to add and improve businesses in its historic downtown as well as help families wanting to expand their homes.