Town Of Pineville

Town of Pineville, doing business as Municipal Water Works, is a West Virginia municipal water utility that acts as a federal grant recipient, funding water infrastructure design and construction projects in rural Appalachia through cooperative agreements and project grants from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration. The entity operates as a U.S. local government (municipality) and does not hold federal contracts; all federal activity is grant-based, with the Town serving as prime recipient on two major infrastructure grants and as sub-recipient on four disaster-relief and water-quality sub-awards routed through the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection.

The Town's prime grant footprint centers on two cornerstone awards. The first is a $937,500 Cooperative Agreement from EPA Region 3 under the Congressionally Mandated Projects program (CFDA 66.202), awarded March 2, 2026, to design and engineer the Indian Creek Waterline Extension Project. Deliverables include final engineering plans, preliminary and final design documentation, environmental surveying, geotechnical investigations, and legal and accounting services to render the project shovel-ready for construction, with a $107,500 subaward to the West Virginia Region 1 Planning and Development Council for project administration and an ultimate completion date of November 1, 2027. The second is a $6.778 million Project Grant from the Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration (CFDA 11.307 - Economic Adjustment Assistance), awarded September 26, 2023, to upgrade the municipal water treatment and distribution system. That award funds construction of a renovated water treatment plant, new water pump station, renovated water intake, upgraded waterlines, and related appurtenances, targeting job preservation and regional economic diversification in the coal-impacted coalfields of West Virginia.

Sub-award activity reflects disaster relief and secondary water-quality projects. The Town received four sub-awards between July and November 2025 routed through FEMA and the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection: grant management costs and disaster-damage debris removal and roadway repairs through FEMA's Division of Emergency Management, and a Wyoming-to-Brenton Waterline Project (Project ID #423) through the state environmental protection division to serve approximately 150 customers with poor water quality and provide fire-protection capacity. Customer concentration is dispersed across five federal agencies — FEMA (3 awards by count), the Department of the Interior's Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (2 awards), and single awards from USDA Rural Utilities Service, the Economic Development Administration, and EPA Region 3. One award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal recompete pressure in the near term. Combined federal funding across all awards totals $12 million.