The Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority (PENNVEST) announced the investment of $190 million for 24 drinking water, wastewater, and non-point source projects across 19 counties. Townships or their authorities received several of these awards. Click here for the press release. 

The projects awarded funding will replace lead service lines, rehabilitate aging systems, upgrade treatment and service capabilities, and reduce environmental contaminants to ensure Pennsylvanians have access to clean, safe water. Here are some of the township and authority awardees:  

• Buckingham Township, Bucks County – received a $3,120,000 grant for a Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) removal and treatment project. 

• Plumstead Township, Bucks County – received a $3,891,000 grant for a water-line extension project. 

• Blairsville Municipal Authority, Indiana County – received a $2,501,213 grant and a $93,787 loan to replace approximately 122 service connections consisting of galvanized pipe formerly attached to, and located downstream of, water mains containing lead goosenecks and other lead components in the Borough of Blairsville and in Burrell Township. 

• Conemaugh Township Municipal Authority, Somerset County – received a $14,597,215 grant and a $4,669,785 loan to make improvements to their aged drinking water system.  

• Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County – received a $5,396,637 grant and a $4,603,363 loan for a lead water line replacement project. Approximately 1,000 residential lead service lines will be replaced throughout Avonmore Borough, Oklahoma Borough, Bell Township, Unity Township, Hempfield Township, Loyalhanna Township, and Salem Township. 

• Spring Brook Township Sewer Authority, Lackawanna County – received a $305,465 grant and a $1,747,535 loan for an ammonia removal project at the wastewater treatment plant.