USDA Helps Former Mill Town With Grants, Loans

WXPR | By Ben Meyer

Published October 18, 2019 at 5:35 AM CDT

A Marathon County community will get a much-needed financial boost from the federal government.

This week, the USDA announced it will give the Village of Maine, just north of Wausau, about $1.5 million in grants and loans.

That’s to improve a deteriorating wastewater system.

Maine absorbed the former village of Brokaw not long after the community’s backbone, the Wausau Paper mill, closed down in 2012.

Maine also got $4 million from the USDA in 2017 to drill new wells.

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Ben Meyer

Ben worked as the Special Topics Correspondent at WXPR from September 2019 until November 2021. He now contributes occasionally to WXPR. During his full-time employment, his main focus was reporting on environment and natural resources issues in northern Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula as part of The Stream, a weekly series.

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