City and Burgess BioPower continue with snowmelt

The downtown reconstruction/snowmelt proposal from the city's successful grant application. (COURTESY GRAPHIC)

BERLIN — While Burgess BioPower works its way through bankruptcy, the city is moving forward with its plan to transform the downtown with new streets and sidewalks that will be heated with waste heat from the biomass plant.

Two years ago, the city was awarded a highly sought federal Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity grant to completely reconstruct Main and Pleasant streets, replacing the subsurface utilities, upgrading sidewalks, repaving the streets, landscaping and fixing two culverts/bridges. The $19.5 million grant proposal also calls for incorporating an innovative snowmelt system using the waste heat from the biomass plant to heat the downtown, from Green Square to St. Anne Church. 

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