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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Rep. Frank J. Mrvan (IN-1), and Crown Point Mayor Peter Land held a ribbon cutting ceremony on Friday, September 13th, to mark the completion of the sewer infrastructure improvement project.

Residents of a Crown Point neighborhood won't have to worry as much about flooding, thanks to sewer improvements.

Officials cut the ribbon Friday on the Liberty Park pipelining project. Seventy-five percent of the cost was funded by the federal government, as part of the Section 219 program of the Water Resources Development Act.

Rep. Frank J. Mrvan announced a federal grant award for CITGO Petroleum in East Chicago under the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) - Federal Aviation Administration's Fueling Aviation's Sustainable Transition (FAST) grant program.

If residents in Calumet Township sign up now, removal of their septic tanks and a hookup to the Lake County sewer system will be free of charge.

Congressman Frank Mrvan, Jr. and county officials broke ground Friday on the Calumet Township Septic Tank Elimination Project (STEP), set up to service 1,225 homes and businesses with the capacity to add more in the future.

The long-awaited installation of sanitary sewer pipes in unincorporated Calumet Township is underway.

Dignitaries broke ground Friday, just north of the Cady Marsh Ditch and west of Cleveland Street, to begin the initial component of Lake County's septic tank elimination project.