Ellendale willl received a $1,132,000 federal loan to support the city’s water system infrastructure

U.S. Sen Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., said the loan will go toward construction of a new water tower that will replace the current 100-year-old tower.

The federal funds are made possible by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development’s Water and Waste Disposal Loans and Grants program, which would be eliminated under the budget proposal released by President Trump.

The program would be eliminated as part of the 21-percent cut to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

In the past two fiscal years, North Dakota communities received more than $37 million from the program for water and wastewater infrastructure projects.