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Byline: Jefferson George
Mar. 22--LINCOLNTON -- Let's admit it: The words "public works" don't usually grab anyone's attention. But when workers block a road to install sewer lines, or water from faucets drops to a trickle, people notice. "You turn the water on," said Steve Gilbert, Lincoln County's public works director, "and you expect it to be there." From a Lake Norman water-treatment plant expansion to new sewer lines north of Lincolnton, about $12 million in public works projects will pick up steam this summer. If work goes as planned, thousands of Lincoln residents will have improved water service, and hundreds will be connected to the county's…