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Hiawatha Awarded Grant to Complete Trail Project

By Greg Bebermeyer

06/07/2013

( KNZA )--The city of Hiawatha has been awarded additional grant funding that will allow for completion of the Hiawatha Fitness and School Trail project.

City Administrator Lynne Ladner says the city was notified this week by the Kansas Department of Transportation that it has been awarded a $446,000 Transportation Enhancement Grant.

Ladner says the grant will allow the city to complete all of the optional sections the trial committee had laid out, and brings the city’s revised portion on the $1.4 million total project cost to just over $290,000.

The city was previously awarded a more than $780,000 grant through the Federal Highway Administration for phase one of the project, which will connect key elements in the eastern part of the city. That phase will begin near the Little Hands Daycare at Lodge Road and end just east of the high school.

The new grant will pay for additional phases to the project.

Ladner says the city hopes to put the project out for bid this summer, with construction beginning before the summer ends.

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