Program to replace ‘straight-pipe’ systems on hold after losing $2 million in funding by Sydney Cromwell The Lowndes County Unincorporated Wastewater Program, a community project to replace unsanitary straight-pipe wastewater systems with better septic and sewer systems, has lost $2 million in federal grant funding. Lowndes County, like much of Alabama’s rural Black Belt, does not have an extensive sewer system and the soil causes … Continue reading Rural wastewater program loses USDA grant