{"id":167678,"date":"2026-04-16T16:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/167678\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T16:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:33:13","slug":"erie-county-to-receive-over-18-million-in-state-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/167678\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie County to receive over $18 million in state funding"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thu, April 16, 2026 at 2:52 PM UTC\"\"<\/p>\n

Erie County to receive over $18 million in state funding<\/p>\n

More than $18.5 million in state money is headed to Erie County.<\/p>\n

According to state representative Ryan Bizzarro, Erie Water Works will receive $18 million to replace lead components and to renovate its distribution facility.<\/p>\n

Erie awarded $18 million for water infrastructure upgrades <\/a><\/p>\n

The Erie County District Attorney\u2019s office is getting nearly $500,000 for programs to reduce gun violence.<\/p>\n

And nearly $50,000 is headed to the United Way of Erie County to launch an after-school, intro to sports program, for 1st through 5th-graders.<\/p>\n

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For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thu, April 16, 2026 at 2:52 PM UTC Erie County to receive over $18 million in state funding…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[75519,136,142,138,137,2218,31715,75518],"class_list":{"0":"post-167678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-distribution-facility","9":"tag-erie","10":"tag-erie-county","11":"tag-erie-headlines","12":"tag-erie-news","13":"tag-erie-water-works","14":"tag-ryan-bizzarro","15":"tag-state-money"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}