George awarded state funding for well renovations

GEORGE — The city of George’s engineering consultants informed the George City Council during Tuesday’s regular meeting that the city had successfully secured state funding to improve their wells to help with an ongoing water shortage. City Engineer Jamin Ankney with Grey and Osborne Consulting said that since it was an emergency loan request, the Washington Public Works Board prioritized it above other funding requests and approved it sooner than they might have otherwise. “It’s a $601,000 funding package … to finish the Well 4 improvements and start design on deepening Well 3, possibly Well 5, to start the design on that,” said Ankney.