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Albion Breaks Ground
Mark Hazelbaker
After almost a decade of struggle to win approval and funding,
the Town of Albion broke ground on Tuesday, September 23, 2003, on a
new sewer system for the hamlet of Albion and the interchange of
I-90 and Highway 73. The project, estimated to cost $3.8
million, will begin providing sewage treatment to the 130 homes and
a half dozen businesses in the sanitary district next summer.
At a ceremony in the Town, Town Supervisor Fred Trulson and resident
Marilyn Switala used specially prepared gold shovels to ceremonially
lift a shovel of dirt, commencing a construction project which will
connect sanitary sewer laterals in the hamlet to the Consolidated
Koshkonong Sanitary District plant. Albion, along with the
neighboring towns of Milton, Sumner and Fulton, is co-owner of the
CKSD sewer plant, the only sanitary plant in the United States owned
entirely by towns.
"This day was a long time coming," said Albion Town Chairperson
Roger Olson. "Even though Albion owns a quarter of a
sewer plant, the RPC took six years to decide to let us use our own
plant. But we finally got approval, we've got the funding, and
we're ready to get going."
The project, which was finally approved by the Regional Planning
Commission in the summer of 2002, is being funded by a wastewater
facilities treatment grant of the Rural Development Administration
of the United States Department of Agriculture. The remaining
55% of the project costs will be funded by special assessments and
user charges on the properties receiving service.
The hamlet of Albion, which is located approximately a mile and a
half north of the City of Edgerton, is a long-standing
unincorporated village. Be
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