Pennsylvania’s Fiscal Year 2024-2025 budget, Act 54 of 2024, allocated $6 million of non-lapsing funds to PennVEST for the purchase of verified nutrient and sediment reductions through the Clean Water Procurement Program.
PennVEST issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) on November 6, 2024, and on August 5, 2025,.
PennVESTissued a Notice to Proceed for the Nutrient and Sediment Reduction Purchase Agreement awarded to HGS, LLC, a subsidiary of Resource Environmental Solutions, LLC, under the RFP for a multi-farm pollution reduction project in Lancaster County.
This project consists of achieving pollutant reductions through implementing wetland re-establishment, wetland restoration, pasture fencing, and forested buffers on two small farms, Geist Road Farm and Black Road Farm.
The Best Management Practices (BMPs) used in this project have an estimated 15-year lifespan.
“The Clean Water Procurement Program uses a results-based approach to encourage best management practices aimed at reducing nutrient pollution in local waterways and the Chesapeake Bay,” said PennVEST Executive Director, Robert Boos. “By investing in these practices, PennVEST adds a complementary tool to its traditional financing programs for advancing clean water projects across the Commonwealth.”
Click Here for the PennVEST announcement.
Visit the PennVEST website for more information on water infrastructure funding opportunities.
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[Posted: August 14, 2025] PA Environment Digest
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