U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration is awarding $1 million to Mount Pleasant Municipal Utilities. The funds are to provide critical water infrastructure improvements needed to support business expansion and encourage future business growth. The EDA grant is to be matched with $1.7 million in local funds. Forty jobs are predicted to be created as a result. 

This project will enable the drilling of a new well and construction of a water main to expand the existing Adams Street water treatment plant to accommodate the expansion plans of a major local food processing business.