{"id":315645,"date":"2026-10-27T22:38:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T22:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/315645\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T22:38:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T22:38:43","slug":"erie-water-works-crosses-100m-total-funding-for-lead-pipe-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/315645\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie Water Works crosses $100M total funding for lead pipe project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Erie Water Works celebrated a historic milestone in its campaign to get the lead out; Erie Water Works has obtained over $100 million in funding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Most recently, they have received $10 million dollars in grant money, their 11th award from PENNVEST.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Erie, Crawford receive over $13 million for water infrastructure projects;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/erie-crawford-receive-over-13-million-for-water-infrastructure-projects\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Erie, Crawford receive over $13 million for water infrastructure projects\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">CEO Craig Palmer said when the campaign began in 2021, Erie had 7,500 lead gooseneck connections and now, they have less than 100 left to replace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He said with this grant, they will also begin replacing old galvanized pipes from private properties, which will take at least three years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We have at least three more years&#8217; worth of work to get rid of the galvanized lines that require replacement, and this is really about reducing and totally removing the risk of lead,&#8221; Palmer said. &#8220;We saw what happened in Flint, Michigan, and that&#8217;s not an option for Erie. And so we made sure to get out in front of it, lean forward into it, and get the lead out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Their next round of replacements will begin in 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erie Water Works celebrated a historic milestone in its campaign to get the lead out; Erie Water Works&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-315645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315645","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=315645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}