City seeking $1M grant to purchase generators to keep lift stations operational during outages

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. Monticello officials continue their efforts to secure a $1 million grant from the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) administered by FEMA for the purchase of eight generators to keep the city’s lift stations operational during power outages, especially post hurricanes. As City Manager Kurt Mackiewicz explains it, six of the generators to be purchased would be permanently at specific lift stations and two would be portable, which added to the city’