by Sarah Craighead Dedmon

Machias Town Manager Bill Kitchen last week announced Machias now has the money required to move forward with repairs to its wastewater treatment facility, thanks to an $893,589 grant from the American Rescue Plan Act. 

Plans to complete the Machias sewer system repairs were fully funded and ready to progress before the pandemic halted everything in 2020. This year, price hikes put the $2 million project roughly $600,000 over its previous estimate, leaving the town short of funds, until last week.