The Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority this week awarded more than $73 million in drinking water, wastewater, stormwater project grants and loans.

Of the money awarded, $69.6 million was in the form of low-interest loans, while the additional $3.8 million is in the form of grants that will fund 22 clean water projects across Pennsylvania.

The awards approved by the PENNVEST Board of Directors ranged from a $227,600 loan for rehabilitation of sanitary sewers in a Washington County community, to a $10,771,070 loan for a treatment plant expansion project in Allegheny County which allow for an extension of an area hospital, which will increase its workforce by 570 positions over the next three years.

A complete list of projects funded is available online.

The deadline for applications to make the next PENNVEST meeting for consideration is August 29.

For more information, visit the PENNVEST website.

7/21/2006