City Takes Steps to Expand Program

BOONE, Iowa---The Boone City Council has taken steps to proactively try and deal with a Department of Natural Resources consent order from 2009. That order for the sanitary sewer rehabilitation work called for completion of the work last November. Mayor John Slight says the Council has put additional funds and directed that most of the money in the City's Property Protection Program be used for residents in the northeast part of the city. Slight says the program focuses on disconnecting footing and perimeter tiling from the sanitary sewer lines and includes sewer backup prevention measures.