ABOVE: Local officials are hoping to obtain Congressional spending to get going on flood remediation efforts along East Voorhees, including the Quaker Oats property and the old Heatcraft plant property.
Area representatives have returned from a lobbying trip to Washington, D.C; where the major focus was getting things done to bring new business and industry to East Voorhees. Since the closing of the Quaker Oats plant, there has been talk of combining that property with the adjacent former Heatcraft plant property.
First, however, about $2.5 to $3 million dollars in flood remediation work needs to be done. And the hope is to cover the initial $1 million of that expense with some Congressionally directed spending through U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth’s office. The party on this trip to the nation’s capital, which included Danville’s Mayor Rickey Williams, Jr and Vermilion Advantage CEO Mike Marron, met with Duckworth; as well as U.S. Senator Dick Durbin and Congresswoman Robin Kelly; to discuss this further. Marron says it may take time to obtain this federal funding, but they’ve made “the first cut.”…