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Blountstown bids a larger main for Calhoun Liberty Hospital

Blountstown’s March 2025 council minutes describe a planned 12-inch water line from Calhoun Liberty Hospital to a point east of Mimosa Street, replacing a six-inch line. The minutes separately describe service connections from Mimosa Street toward Sherry Avenue; they do not say the new 12-inch main runs all the way to Sherry.

A September 2026 bid listing later specified about 2,050 feet of 12-inch C900 PVC along the hospital-to-Mimosa route. City staff said the larger connection would add redundancy for the hospital and benefit the municipal system. During the work, a temporary restroom trailer could move with the pipe crew as long as its staging area leaves hospital access open.

The September bid fixes the main’s route and pipe size, while the service connections toward Sherry Avenue remain a separate item in the March council minutes.

Blountstown received a $1.18 million grant for aging wastewater infrastructure

Blountstown received a $1,185,576 Small Cities Community Development Block Grant on August 20, 2026, for improvements to its aging wastewater collection and treatment facility. City officials attended the announcement in Bonifay, where FloridaCommerce outlined awards totaling nearly $8.8 million for 12 small and rural Northwest Florida communities.

Earlier in 2026, the city solicited engineering services for its Small Cities CDBG program, with questions due May 8. The August award establishes the funding and broad purpose; engineering and procurement will spell out the construction items and schedule at the wastewater facility.

A wooden pedestrian bridge was included in Blountstown’s FEMA repair bids

Blountstown’s Hurricane Michael recovery bid sought to replace a wooden pedestrian bridge damaged in the storm. The city described the location only as “around town,” leaving the crossing unnamed in the public notice.

The notice directed bidders to Dewberry Engineers at 20684 Central Avenue East for plans and specifications. Paper plan sets cost $50, while digital copies were free, a detail that gave contractors a route to the engineering package even though the city did not identify the bridge by street or trail.

The city scheduled the bid opening for November 5, 2024, and planned to take the award to council on November 12. The notice records a solicitation; it does not name the selected contractor or confirm that the bridge reopened.

Calhoun Liberty Hospital opens its $47 million replacement facility

Calhoun Liberty Hospital opened its new 50,000-square-foot facility in Blountstown on August 17, 2025. Its first patient was also the last patient cared for in the original hospital: 88-year-old Calhoun County resident Lonnie Nissley was transferred after the move and admitted at 8:30 that morning, the hospital reported.

The $47 million replacement followed Hurricane Michael’s 2018 damage, which forced about 60 percent of the old building to be sealed off and left the hospital operating at roughly 40 percent capacity. After the July ribbon cutting, the August opening moved the project from a finished building into patient care. The new facility includes private inpatient rooms, short-term rehabilitation, expanded diagnostic services, and a 1,000-kilowatt generator.

Blountstown scheduled a second phase of Commerce Building repairs

At 130 Central Avenue East, the second Commerce Building repair phase covered the storefront, windows and doors. ConstructConnect lists the 2025 ITB 2025-02 package at $193,732, with substantial completion scheduled for August 15 and final completion for September 1, 2025.

Calhoun County listed May 27 as the bid date and June 26 as the planned start. The Florida grant record connects the building work to the recovery program, but the linked records do not provide a closeout account of which individual repairs were finished or when the storefront reopened.

Blountstown’s generator project remains listed as an active grant

Blountstown’s CDBG-DR page lists a $34,486.75 generator project for Public Works, the Fire Department, and City Hall. The page says the CDBG-DR funding supplies the 25 percent match required for a separate FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant Program project. Florida’s state grant record for M0077 now lists a $53,043.75 contract and describes a permanent generator for a fire station.

The state agreement remains active through September 30, 2027; an August 2025 amendment increased the contract amount by $18,557. A June 2024 FloridaCommerce report still marked the activity planned. The city page names three facilities, while the current state summary names a fire station.

Blountstown sought a construction manager for a new 7,500-square-foot City Hall

Blountstown’s 2024 request for qualifications described a new City Hall of about 7,500 square feet, with paved parking, concrete sidewalks, stormwater treatment and utility connections. The city sought a construction manager at risk, bringing a builder into planning before construction.

Firms had until August 7, 2024, to submit qualifications, and the city also scheduled an optional pre-submittal meeting in July. The notice lays out the building and site program for the future team; it does not announce a selected firm or a construction start.

Blountstown put major wastewater treatment plant repairs out to bid

Blountstown’s 2025 wastewater-treatment solicitation laid out a substantial renovation of the plant damaged by Hurricane Michael. The scope included repairs to the influent pumping station, new screening and grit removal, rehabilitation of the headworks, cleaning and equipment replacement in treatment basins, new blowers, an equalization tank, upgraded electrical and SCADA systems, and a new effluent pumping station and force main.

The plan also called for groundwater-recharge wetlands to replace the existing point discharge and a new plant reuse system. Florida’s M0115 grant record remains active, was increased to $11.37 million in August 2026, and now runs through September 2027; the bid listing still showed no award as of June 2025.