Gov. Tom Corbett Thursday announced the investment of $53.4 million in nine non-point source, drinking water and wastewater projects across six counties through the PA Infrastructure Investment Authority.
“These projects will improve the health of local streams and will also provide safe drinking water to residents of Pennsylvania,” Gov. Corbett said. “These approvals bring the total amount of clean water funding approved by the Board during my administration to $1.3 billion, for nearly 300 projects. I commend the PennVEST Board for all that it has done during the past four years.”
Of the $53.4 million, $47.5 million is for low-interest loans and $5.9 million is offered as grants.
The awards range from a $231,320 loan to a non-profit women’s shelter in Franklin County to install pervious pavement, rain gardens and other improvements to deal with stormwater problems to one of the largest, a $10.9 million loan to a community in Cambria County that will make much needed repairs and upgrades to a portion of its sanitary sewer system.
The funding comes from a combination of state funds approved by voters, federal grants to PennVEST from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and recycled loan repayments from previous PennVEST funding awards. Funds for the projects are disbursed after bills for work are paid and receipts are submitted to PennVEST.
A list of projects funded is available online.
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