{"id":244266,"date":"2026-07-15T20:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T20:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/244266\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T20:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T20:20:15","slug":"franconia-township-to-receive-nearly-2-million-in-state-funding-for-wastewater-system-upgrade-pennsylvania-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/244266\/","title":{"rendered":"Franconia Township to receive nearly $2 million in state funding for wastewater system upgrade\u00a0 | Pennsylvania News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG, Pa.- Rep. Donna Scheuren (R-Montgomery) announced the Franconia Township Sewer Authority will receive nearly $2.5 million in state funding for\u00a0wastewater system improvements.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The funds will reduce long-term costs and improve affordability, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives said in a news release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The project will include installing a new 15,010-foot low-pressure sewer main to provide public sewers access to 131 homes that are using on-lot disposal systems, according to the release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Pennsylvania House of Representatives said the installation will be tied to current infrastructure and convey the wastewater to existing treatment facilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The project is expected to reduce nutrient loading to the Indian Creek, according to the release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The low-interest loan will be provided by the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority, according to the report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThis project is a forward\u2011thinking investment in our community\u2019s health and environmental future,\u201d Scheuren said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Visit PENNVEST\u2019s <a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW194573537 BCX0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/agencies\/pennvest\/resources-tools-and-training\/projects-and-funding\/approved-project-search-map\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">website<\/a> for more information on the program.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISBURG, Pa.- Rep. Donna Scheuren (R-Montgomery) announced the Franconia Township Sewer Authority will receive nearly $2.5 million in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[92100,38260,104613,104614,28,30,5634,75319,29,892,35898],"class_list":["post-244266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-franconia-township","tag-improvements","tag-indian-creek","tag-low-interest-loan","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-house-of-representatives","tag-pennsylvania-infrastructure-investment-authority","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-state-funding","tag-wastewater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244266","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=244266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}