Getting sewage services started
Getting to know Tamina
Shenandoah is using American Rescue Plan Act funds to extend water and sewer lines down Tamina Road to provide city services to property owners along the road. The project is the first step needed to eventually provide services to the entire Tamina community.
Tamina is an unincorporated area originally settled by freed slaves in the late 1800s.
2023 Construction begins:
1,700 feet Water extension 1,200 feet Sewer extension
The community was established in 1871.
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Efforts to bring sewer services to Tamina began in 1999.
HOLLINS RD.
TAMINA
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Tamina boundary
TAMINA RD.
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Tamina is unincorporated.
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The Tamina community is home to a community center, a park and a cemetery. U.S. Census Bureau 2020 five- year Annual Community Survey data for census blocks in the Tamina era estimates a population of 423, of which 364 are Black.
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Shenandoah Public Works Director Joseph Peart said. Several dozen current and future property owners and businesses on that section of road will have the option to receive water services from either the city or the nonprofit Old Tamina Water Supply Corp. The project was
project,” Peart said. The historically Black Tamina com- munity, which includes a portion of Tamina Road, has been trying to get public sewer services since 1999. Berry King, owner of Bks Hand Car Wash and Detailing on Tamina Road, said he hopes the services will help attract more businesses to the area. “It is kind of hard to open up a busi- ness or anything other than what we are doing right now,” King said. “The [cost to install] the old aerobic systems is $10,000 to $15,000, and a lot of peo- ple cannot afford that.” Bleyl said once the water and sewer lines are complete, property owners west of the Union Pacific Railroad at Johnson Road will have access to the city’s utilities. Businesses located between David Memorial Drive and Johnson Road include Sycamore Creek Ranch Memory Care and Emmanuel Church of God. Peart said any future extensions to the project
will need to be funded by ARPA funds. Shenandoah Mayor Ritch Wheeler noted the project will not solve the ongoing problems with Tamina’s sew- age infrastructure, but said it will be a start. “They have been dying for water and sewer for quite some time,” Shenandoah City Council Member Ron Raymaker said of Tamina. “We are able to help them, we are able to help our infrastructure and help our ETJ.” Scope of the project Council members have voiced their support for the project, stating it will increase property values along the road as well as saving money for tax- payers because it is mostly covered by ARPA funding. “With the improvements on Tamina Road, that is only going to bring prop- erty values up for that section of the city,” Council Member John Escoto said at the March 23 meeting.
between David Memorial Drive and Easley Road, is largely being funded through American Rescue Plan Act funds as part of federal COVID-19 relief. Shenandoah received more than $740,000 in ARPA funding, and city
officials said the project falls within the guidelines and scope for which the federal money is approved. Upon completion, the project will allow the city to provide water and sewer services for prop- erty owners and businesses along the stretch of Tam- ina Road, which is
approved during a March 23 Shenan- doah City Council meeting, and it is awaiting the second roundof ARPA fund- ing until surveying can begin, said John Bleyl, president and CEO of Bleyl Engineering. “The city pur- chased property many years ago for
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currently served by septic and aer- obic systems to treat wastewater,
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