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PennVEST Schedules 16 Meetings Around The State On Clean Water Funding Opportunities

On March 4, the PA Infrastructure Investment Authority announced it has scheduled 16 public meetings around the state on how PennVEST funding can help improve water quality in your community.

The meetings are for municipal officials, conservation districts, private landowners, authority board members and staff, regulators, engineers, and others interested in water quality improvement funding.

Learn about funding levels, sources of funding, timelines and meeting cut off dates, regulation updates, and how to develop a PennVEST project.

PennVEST staff will also go over new initiatives: small projects funding, and programmatic financing, the local sub-revolving loan program, and the Center for Water Quality Excellence in Lancaster and York counties.

Special funding will be available for lead line replacement, and for testing lead in drinking water in schools and child care programs.

The meetings will be held from 9:30 a.m. to Noon in--

-- Allegheny County - May 26: Wilkins Twp. Municipal Building, 110 Peffer Road, Turtle Creek

-- Bradford County - May 19: Towanda Fire Hall, 101 Elm Street, Towanda

-- Cambria County - July 9: DEP Offices, 286 Industrial Park Road, Ebensburg

-- Clarion County - June 4: Trinity Point Church, 180 West Trinity Drive, Clarion

-- Clearfield County - June 17: PennDOT Training Center 70 PennDOT Drive, Clearfield

-- Dauphin County - June 10: Fish and Boat Commission, 1601 Elmerton Avenue, Harrisburg

-- Fayette County - July 14: Hilton Garden Inn, 555 Synergy Drive, Uniontown

-- Fulton County - May 13: Buchanan State Forest District Office, 25185 Great Cove Road, McConnellsburg

-- Lackawanna County - May 20: Lackawanna Center for Public Safety, 30 Valley View Road, Jessup

-- Lancaster County - June 2: Farm and Home Center, 1383 Arcadia Road, Lancaster

-- McKean County -April 7: McKean County Emergency Management Office, 17175 US-6, Smethport

-- Mercer County - June 25: Training and Workforce Development Building, 3050 Prosperity Place, Hermitage

-- Montgomery County - June 9: Greater Plymouth Community Center, 2910 Jolly Road, Plymouth Meeting

-- Northampton County - April 28: Jacobsburg Environmental Education Center, 400 Belfast Road, Nazareth

-- Union County - June 16: Union County Government Center, 155 North 15th Street, Lewisburg

-- York County - June 23: Nixon County Park Environmental Education Center, 5922 Nixon Drive, York

Click Here to register for these free meetings.

Please contact your regional Project Specialist with questions or concerns regarding the events:

-- Northwest Region: Ken Anderson 717-783-6799 or kenanderso@pa.gov: Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Crawford, Elk, Erie, Forest, Indiana, Jefferson, Lawrence, McKean, Mercer, Venango, Warren

-- Southwest Region: Dan Mikesic 717-574-8452 or dmikesic@pa.gov: Allegheny, Beaver, Cambria, Fayette, Greene, Somerset, Washington, Westmoreland

-- Northcentral Region: Leslie Cote 717-783-4489 or lecote@pa.gov: Bradford, Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Columbia, Lycoming, Montour, Northumberland, Potter, Snyder, Sullivan, Tioga, Union

-- Southcentral Region: Tesra Schlupp 717-574- 8453 or tschlupp@pa.gov: Adams, Bedford, Berks, Blair, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata, Lancaster, Lebanon, Mifflin, Perry, York

-- Northeast/Southeast Regions: Rebecca Kennedy 717-574-8454 or rebkennedy@pa.gov: Bucks, Carbon, Chester, Delaware, Lackawanna, Lehigh, Luzerne, Monroe, Montgomery, Northampton, Philadelphia, Pike, Schuylkill, Susquehanna, Wayne, Wyoming

-- Robert Boos: Deputy Executive Director for Project Management: 717-783- 4493 or rboos@pa.gov.

Visit the PA Infrastructure Investment Authority for more information on clean water funding opportunities.

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