CENTREVILLE &045; The Town of Centreville has been awarded $292,612 to improve its wastewater treatment facilities, aldermen announced at their regular meeting Tuesday.

The Community Development Block Grant, which requires no matching funds, was approved by the Mississippi Development Authority and will be used to install new aerators and baffle walls in the town’s two sewage lagoons.

A sand filter in one lagoon will also be restored.

The grant application was prepared by Centreville-based Apex Engineering Corp., an electrical and mechanical engineering firm formed in 1997.

Apex, which also provides grant consultation services for public and private entities, will now administer the project for the town.

&uot;The job will be contracted out to a company that specializes in this sort of work,&uot; Apex representative Billie Knight said.

In other action, the board voted 3-0 &045; with Aldermen Thomas Lobrano and Mary Sanders absent &045; to apply for another CDBG grant in the amount of $250,000 to refurbish the Kevin Poole Van Cleave Memorial Library.

Apex is also providing a preliminary engineering review of that project.

The board also agreed to allow J.B. Rushing and Associates of Brookhaven to provide plans and estimates on the relocation of sewer lines and box culverts in conjunction with the planned four-laning of Mississippi 24 through Centreville.