Middletown Secures $150K Grant for Sterling Street Project

The award to Middletown of $150,000 in state grants for a waste water project in Middletown was “great for us” said the city’s DPW Commissioner Jacob Tawil.

The sign at the corner of Academy Avenue and Sterling Street in Middletown on Dec. 16, 2015. The city was awarded a $150,000 grant to upgrade the wastewater infrastructure around Sterling Street. Holly Kellum/Epoch Times

MIDDLETOWN—The award to Middletown of $150,000 in state grants for a waste water project in Middletown was “great for us” said the city’s DPW Commissioner Jacob Tawil.

“Every little bit helps,” he said. “That’s money that we don’t have to charge for our rate payers.”

He explained in a phone interview that the money is for the second phase of a project to upgrade the wastewater infrastructure near Sterling Street, which he estimates was first built in the early 1900’s.

Every little bit helps.

— Jacob Tawil, commissioner,, Middletown Department of Public Works