OXFORD — For residents of Pottle Road in Oxford, two decades of waiting to be connected to the town’s water supply may soon be over.
Town Manager Michael Chammings said funding from Tax Increment Financing districts would allow the town to extend a 12-inch pipe to the northern end of town along the Pottle Road. The town would borrow the $360,000 for the project and pay it back through TIF funds, if voters approve an article at the June town meeting.
Installing the line would allow the Oxford Water District to extend an 8-inch line through the residential area along Pottle Road.
Chammings said some properties that have issues with their water supply would be serviced by the new waterline.
The Board of Selectmen voted April 19 to add an article to the annual town meeting warrant requesting to borrow around $1.7 million. Of that amount, $1.3 million would go to repay Bob Bahre for financing a waterline extension to the Oxford Casino on Route 26 atop Pigeon Hill.
The remaining money would be for the Pottle Road waterline project.
“It’s a very good project,” Chammings said. “It’s been 20 years in the making and a lot of people are glad that it’s going in.”
Chammings said most of the work to make the extension a reality has been done.
“Now it’s a matter of borrowing the money and getting the work done, and we’re hoping to get it done before fall,” he said.
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