Two Ford County towns are being awarded grants to improve wastewater collections.  Cullom and Piper City join Effingham, Elkhart and Danvers in acquiring the help for upgrades.  The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency has announced grant awards totaling $515,500 in funding to assist communities lacking wastewater collection and treatment systems. 

Many of these communities have patchwork systems or decades-old underground 'wildcat' pipes that illegally discharge to surface waters.

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