Mebane’s West End Revitalization Association has been awarded a two-year operating grant of $70,000 by the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation.
WERA president Omega Wilson said the organization’s focus over the next two years will be expanding innovative ways to leverage grant money for the installation of safe drinking water and first-time sewer services for Mebane’s low-income minority communities of West End, White Level and Buckhorn/Perry Hill.
The City of Mebane has provided matching funds for millions of dollars in block-grant projects that initiated first-time sewer-services installations for more than 90 low-income homes with health risks due to failed backyard septic systems.