A $19.5 million federal grant to use hot wastewater from a biomass plant to melt snow by heating streets and sidewalks downtown is what the northern New Hampshire city of Berlin needs to turn things around, the city's mayor said.
"Finally putting money into the heart of our city. That's what we've been needing this whole time," Mayor Paul Grenier said Friday, August 12, while touring downtown with New Hampshire U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat, according to The Conway Daily Sun.
