Nine Iowa cities are splitting more than three-MILLION dollars in federal funding to help finance updates to city sewers and water-related systems. Clinton is getting 600-thousand dollars for its project. Hamburg and Central City are each getting half a million dollars. Portsmouth is planning to dig a new well and install new water mains and is receiving 195-thousand dollars in federal funds for the project. Three-hundred thousand dollar grants are going to Armstrong, Scranton and Shelby.

The communities of Lehigh and Smithland will each receive 242-thousand dollars.

(Radio Iowa)