RB council approves sewer project

At Thursday’s meeting, the Red Bay City Council voted to designate the $100,000 line item grant they recently received from the state to go towards a sewer project for the city.

According to Mayor Bobby Forsythe, the previous administration made an agreement with the Alabama Department of Environmental Management to make improvements to the sewer system in the city.

Forsythe said this is a project the current city council has wanted to finish up for some time now and this grant will provide them with the means to do so.

“Every time we get a good rain, we have a sanitary sewer overflow on Highway 11 north,” Forsythe said. “We have to go through lots of paperwork to get that situation reported every time it happens, so hopefully this sewer line will get that problem fixed.”

Forsythe said the secondary sewer line would be helpful in other areas of the city as well.

“When the new industrial park is developed and when other business come into the city into existing buildings, this sewer line will help handle the extra volume,” he said.

The council also approved the contract that will allow the Northwest Alabama Council of Local Governments to administer the grant.

Any money that is left over from the sewer project is completed will be used for sidewalk repairs at Bay Tree Park.