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Wayne County, PA – Today, U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright (PA-08) announced that the South Wayne County Water and Sewer Authority will receive a Water and Waste Disposal Loan and Grant of $14,879,000 to upgrade their wastewater treatment plant for their public sewer system.

“Upgrading our aging infrastructure is a top priority and an important part of how we bolster opportunity and prosperity,” said Rep. Cartwright, a member of the House Appropriations Committee. “I have been and will remain a strong advocate for programs like this and will do all I can to help our communities get the funds they need to be attractive and safe places to live, work, and play.”

“An investment in infrastructure of this magnitude will directly impact the lives of rural Americans in Pennsylvania,” said Bob Morgan, USDA Rural Development State Director. “USDA will be able to fund more critical projects in Pennsylvania like those announced today in the coming months and years.”

The project will receive additional funding of a $3,879,000 loan and a $539,000 grant. The investment follows a more than $10 million loan and grant combination that was obligated in 2019. Planning for the project began as early as 2003, and the Authority was happy to see the project come to fruition.

“[We] are very excited to have received the grant, as well as the low interest loans for our facility upgrades,” Jack Lennox, executive director for Roamingwood Sewer and Water, agent of, South Wayne County Water and Sewer Authority wrote in an email. “[The communities] will have one of the most state-of-the-art facilities in the country along with having a brand-new infrastructure.”

The plant currently serves residential communities located in Salem and Lake Townships, Pa. The plant is more than 40 years old, and the components have reached the end of their useful life.

USDA Rural Development administers more than 50 economic development programs as part of the agency’s initiative to help rural America build back better, stronger and more equitably than ever before. For more information on the award program listed above, contact the USDA Rural Development State Office at (717) 237-2153 or email Daniel.Blottenberger@usda.gov.

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