Governor Wolf Announces $121 Million Investment in Water Infrastructure Projects in 20 Counties

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• Towanda Municipal Authority*- received a $4,736,700 loan to develop three new well sources, a one million gallon per day membrane filtration plant, 107,000-gallon storage tank, 7,500 feet of raw water transmission main, a booster pump station rehabilitation, 6,780 transmission main replacement and related appurtenances. The project will address a 47 percent water loss, increase reliability, provide for adequate fire protection, and secure the raw water supply. 

• Slippery Rock Municipal Authority*- received a $1,622,500 loan to install approximately 5,500 feet of waterline and associated appurtenances. The project will address unaccounted for water loss and improve service reliability. This line replacement project is being coordinated with a PennDOT paving project. 

• Meadville Area Water Authority*- received a $3,000,000 loan to replace approximately 5,885 feet of water lines, install new service connections, and 46 new system valves, 12 fire hydrants are to be replaced or updated. The project will provide operational efficiencies, reduce high unaccounted-for water loss, increase service reliability and support economic development opportunities in the area.

• Slippery Rock Municipal Authority **- received a $1,622,500 loan to replace approximately 2,050 feet of sanitary sewer force main, 600 feet of gravity sewers and replace a belt filter press at the treatment plant. The project will eliminate combined sewer overflows due to force main breaks, plugged lines, addressing issues with untreated or partially treated sewerage discharges during wet weather events, and replace the belt filter press that is at the end of its useful life. The line work on this project is being coordinated with a PennDOT paving project. 

• City of Johnstown** - received a $4,535,490 loan and a grant of $6,364,510 to replace and rehabilitate approximately 30,000 feet of sanitary sewers and lateral lines in the Old Conemaugh and Hornerstown areas of the City of Johnstown. The project will reduce wet weather overflows of raw sewage into Stony Creek and Little Conemaugh River and help satisfy the Consent Order and Agreement with the Department of Environmental Protection.

• Knox Township Municipal Authority**- received a $1,529,923 loan and a $1,604,077 grant to construct 10,100 feet of sanitary sewer main, 43 concrete manholes, house laterals, one grinder pump and a recirculating sand filter treatment facility. The project will eliminate malfunctioning on-lot systems, documented at 57 percent, and wildcat discharges in the service area affecting local drinking water wells contaminated with fecal coliform. 

• Lower Paxton Township** - received a $13,278,195 loan to repair, rehabilitate, replace, and line approximately 41,200 feet of sanitary sewer mains, associated manholes, laterals as well as constructing sewers in four Beaver Creek mini-basins and sewer rehabilitation in two Spring Creek mini-basins for an additional 18,300 feet.

• Benezette Township - received a $249,660 loan and a $350,340 grant to construct an effluent metered manhole, flow-paced chemical feed pumps, air diffusers, two new sludge dewatering reed beds, and a pre-treatment facility. The project will address operational issues at the treatment plant and eliminate partially treated effluent from entering a tributary of Sinnemahoning Creek.

• Perry Township - received a $2,221,956 loan and a $2,878,044 grant to construct 28,000 feet of pressure sewers, residential grinder pumps and a 46,000 gallon per day wastewater treatment plant to provide service to the Hadley and Camp Perry areas. The Clarks Mill area will receive 2,100 feet of gravity sewers to 14 customers and will be served by a community on-lot disposal system. The project will address failing on-lot systems and wildcat sewers in the proposed service areas. Almost 60 percent of the on-lot systems were determined to be malfunctioning, resulting in public health issues related to untreated sewage in publically accessible areas.

• Franconia Sewer Authority **- received a $4,608,000 loan to install 22,350 feed of pressure sewers in Morwood Village, 4,350 feet of pressure sewers along Allentown and Indian Creek Roads and 1,850 feet of gravity sewers along Rittenhouse Place and Indian Creek Road.

• Hegins Hubley Authority - received a $2,000,000 loan to pay for cost associated with design and engineering for collection and treatment facilities to serve areas of Hegins and Hubley Townships. Preliminary engineering indicates over 166,610 feet of gravity sewers, 21,564 of low-pressure sewers and seven pump stations will be needed for the collection system, as well as a 600,000 gallons per day wastewater treatment facility.  The project will address a high failure rate of on-lot treatment systems discharging untreated sewage into publically accessible areas.

• Confluence Borough Municipal Authority **- received a $5,310,615 loan and a $4,365,635 grant to replace the existing sewage conveyance system, and construct improvements to the sewage treatment facilities to eliminate combined sewer overflows into the Youghiogheny River, and comply with the Consent Order and Agreement with the Department of Environmental Protection.