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Stop the backup: Exeter Borough got $8.7 million loan for new sewer system

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For the last 40 years, Exeter residents dealt with sewage spilling into their basements and businesses. Borough officials got nearly nine million dollars for a new system.

At a press conference on Jan. 3, officials announced they were approved for an $8,777,000 loan to update their deteriorating sewer system. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Program financed the loan.

Around 60 percent of the borough runs on a single sewage/storm line. Borough Council members Lori DeAngelo and Joe Pizano have found backlogged sewage in their businesses or homes.

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