5/14/14 - Hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant money and local funds will be spent this year constructing new fuel tanks at the Spencer J Hardy Airport. The countyâs General Government and Health and Human Services Subcommittee approved a resolution at its meeting Monday night for the county to enter a grant agreement with the Michigan Aeronautics Commission, which is providing $563,000 for the project. The local match for the grant money will be just over $180,000. Johnson says this is larger than usual for this kind of project, but the state did not have the funds to make the usual 95% of the cost of the project. A fuel farm includes two storage tanks, each holding 15,000 gallons of different kinds of fuel. The current fuel farm is more than halfway through its operating life and is located at the south side of the airport, far away from the new terminal. The new tanks will be located at the north end. The county will also spend roughly $44,000 on construction oversight and materials testing services, which was also approved on Monday. Construction on the new fuel farm will begin in the next 3-4 weeks, with an expected completion time of four months. However, not all of the work will be visible, since the 15,000-gallon tanks will be constructed off-site and installed later. (TD)
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