BERLIN — The city is hoping to use federal American Rescue Plan funds, funneled through Coos County, to pay for a $250,000 engineering study to extend water and sewer on Route 110.
City water and sewer service ends near the former Converse Shoe building and the study would design and provide cost estimates to extend water and sewer service approximately two mile west.
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This is exactly what Berlin needs !
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