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From the Local Infrastructure Hub
A small town seeks help to get water in the right places
The Village of Corrales, New Mexico, has too much water in the wrong places, and not enough in the right places. Its residents hope federal infrastructure grants can help create a better balance. The picturesque village of 8,300 people, 13 miles north of Albuquerque...
Local Infrastructure Hub Launches New Bootcamp Trainings to Help Municipalities Access Federal Infrastructure Funding
The pro-bono bootcamps are available for localities with 150,000 residents or less to apply The new series focuses on transportation, roadways, electric vehicle infrastructure, climate resilience, and clean water improvements WASHINGTON, D.C. – (January 8, 2023) – The...
Building “Resilience Centers” in Thousand Oaks: Keeping EV charging stations in action, even during power outages
Charging stations provide power for electric vehicles. But what happens when charging stations lose their source of power? Officials in Thousand Oaks, CA, are tackling that problem. Seeking federal infrastructure grants, they aim to build backup solar generators and...
With Local Infrastructure Hub Help, Lansing Seeks to Reconnect an Isolated Community
While it only takes eight minutes to traverse the city of Lansing, Michigan, on I-496, the cross-town expressway, it has taken 50 years to begin addressing the isolation and injustice the highway’s construction precipitated when it sliced through a vibrant...
The Local Infrastructure Hub Shows Communities How to Improve Street Safety, Creatively
Sometimes the nation’s infrastructure needs are so daunting that the expense seems out of reach. Other times, a fix can be in a community’s own backyard. It just takes a bit of DIY. Consider Globe, AZ, a copper mining hub 88 miles east of Phoenix near the crossroads...
Local Infrastructure Hub provides lifeline to Texas town seeking safer streets
Maria Tidwell returned to her native Texas in 2009 after years in New York. She got hired as a code enforcer in the little town of Gladewater, and started looking for what needed improvement. She didn’t have to look far. “We need everything,” she says. New streets,...