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PennVEST OKs $98 Million Water Infrastructure, Non-Point Source Grants, Loans
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The PA Infrastructure Investment Authority Wednesday approved the investment of $98 million in 23 non-point source, drinking water, and wastewater projects in 19 counties.
"The water improvement projects awarded funding buy the PennVEST Board today further our goals of environmental improvement and economic revitalization," Gov. Corbett said. "These projects are vital to the future health and wellbeing of citizens all across Pennsylvania and will serve as a lasting legacy to our children and grandchildren."
Of the $98 million total, $71 million is for low-interest loans and $27 million is offered as grants.
The awards include a $28 million grant/loan combination to upgrade a sewage treatment plant in Clinton County that will allow the plant to eliminate the discharge of partially treated sewage into a local stream as well as come into compliance with its Chesapeake Bay nutrient discharge requirements.
Non-point source pollution control projects funded in this round by PennVEST include:
-- Allegheny County: Millvale Borough received a $703,525 grant to plant, in conjunction with the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, approximately 850 trees and construct bio-swales in order to control storm water runoff and its pollution into Girty's Run.
-- Chester County: Chester County Conservation District received a $1,274,595 grant to undertake ten separate projects at various sites in the county. These projects primarily involve the implementation of agricultural best management practices designed to reduce nutrient runoff into local streams and, ultimately, the Chesapeake Bay.
-- Delaware County: Chester County Conservation District received a $986,671 grant to construct facilities to reduce wastewater runoff from a mushroom farming operation that is contaminating Naamans Creek with nutrients.
-- Lancaster County: Lancaster County Conservation District: Received a $620,885 grant to construct a boiler that will burn chicken manure on a poultry farm whose land is saturated with nutrients that are contaminating the local stream and the Chesapeake Bay and a second $214,600 grant to construct a riparian buffer on one farm and a manure storage facility and other storm water control facilities on another farm in order to reduce nutrient runoff into local streams and the Chesapeake Bay.
A list of funding approved is available online.
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1/30/2012 |
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