Isle of Wight County received a ceremonial check for $1.2 million on Aug. 12 for a water tower to be erected adjacent to Riverside Smithfield Hospital.
The federal funding is earmarked in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, which President Joe Biden signed into law on March 9. The original version of the bill passed the House of Representatives 219-211 over opposition by 209 Democrats and two Republicans. U.S. Rep. Jen Kiggans, R-Va., who cast one of the supporting votes, attended the check ceremony.
Kiggans said she learned of Isle of Wight’s need for funding when county officials submitted the project as a request to Congress. She praised the project as an example of how federal tax dollars are invested back into communities.
Taxpayers “need to be able to see what their tax dollars are going to,” she said.
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