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A $3 million grant will provide the missing link for a long-awaited rail trail completion. The Enola Low Grade Rail Trail has been an ongoing project for RETTEW’s client, Manor Township, in Lancaster County, PA. Sections of the trail have been completed over the past several years, with the final piece being the Safe Harbor…
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Sidewalks are important for the safety and connectivity of any community. For two municipalities in Central Pennsylvania, RETTEW is helping to fund and plan important sidewalk capital improvement projects. *** In the Village of Brownstown, part of West Earl Township in northern Lancaster County, municipal leaders are making new sidewalks their No. 1 priority on…
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Keeping our air, water, and land clean starts with you and me, but there’s another important partner who should be part of the equation: our local township, borough, or city. RETTEW has collaborated with several municipalities to help evaluate capacities and implement a regional plan to reduce pollutants in our streams. We have coordinated interviews…
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The future won’t look at all like the past, it turns out. In the past, municipalities of all sizes in Pennsylvania used grant funding to finance infrastructure and capital improvement projects. Reserve funds were purposely kept small or nonexistent to best position your agency for funding. Nowadays, grant funding has all but disappeared. Rather than…
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A section of a local creek will soon be teaming with fish and a healthy ecosystem. RETTEW’s client, Donegal Chapter of Trout Unlimited, recently received a grant administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Section 319 grant for $58,000 will be used to restore a section of the Conowingo…
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The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) recently awarded Manor Township, a RETTEW client, $800,000, to convert the Safe Harbor Trestle Bridge to recreational use. An abandoned railroad trestle bridge for the Enola Low Grade line, the bridge will be part of the Enola Low Grade Rail Trail, a regional rail trail crossing…
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RETTEW’s Community Development group secured a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation for more than $47,000 to help municipalities in the Cocalico Creek Watershed develop Pollution Reduction Plans. Kara Kalupson, RETTEW’s MS4 Coordinator, spearheaded the effort to find the funding. MS4, or Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System, is a program required by the…
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The City of Bethlehem and RETTEW Associates Inc. are pleased to announce a $1.25 million grant from the PennWorks program for the city’s upgrades to its wastewater treatment plant. Awarded and administered by the Commonwealth Financing Agency, a program of the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, the grant will go toward a total…
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