Cedar Grove will receive $31,000 in emergency funding from the Kanawha County Commission to repair and rebuild a pump station spewing raw sewage in the Kellys Creek area.
County commissioners approved the money from the county's emergency response fund at their meeting Tuesday.
"I don't think there's any choice" Commission President Kent Carper said. He called the emergency funding a "no-brainer."
Carper said the issue was brought to the County Commision's attention Monday. He noted that the creek does not flow into the Elk River, where West Virginia America Water's treatment plant for the Charleston area is located.
"We're going to redo all of the infrastructure in this pump station, which will include two new pumps" said Dave Armstrong, the county's director of planning and development. "We believe this will solve this particular problem but there may be more that pop up down the road"
Cedar Grove has its own sewage system, but the town has agreed that Kanawha Public Service District should assume control of operation and maintenance. The County Commission plans to send a letter to Cedar Grove and the Kanawha PSD "strongly encouraging" them to proceed with the change.
"We are encouraging, almost to the point of no option, for them to be taken over" said Carper. "I think that they're going to do it."
In regards to the 300 votes not counted in the Kanawha County unofficial election results, canvassing was still in progress at the time of the meeting,
An issue arose after a card was left in one of the vote-counting machines in the voter registration office on Election Day.
Carper said the canvassing was "going very well" and that he didn't expect any of the final totals to change the results.
Also at the meeting, two Kanawha County deputy sheriffs were sworn in. Robert Scott Alford will replace William Moyers and Cass Aaron Close will replace Kevin Carte, both effective June 1, 2016.
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