The Haines Borough Assembly introduced an ordinance recently that would accept a $1.7 million loan from the state to improve the municipality’s dilapidated wastewater treatment plant.
The low-interest loan, from the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, would be used to fund the first phase of the plant project – replacement of the failing building.
The structure’s painted steel supports are rusting and eroding to the point where the roof began to cave in during the…
