Sen. Nick Miller, D-14th, announced $8,618,785 in state funding for projects across the Lehigh Valley to improve infrastructure, public safety and community enjoyment. Thirty-one projects will be awarded via the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development’s Commonwealth Financing Authority Local Share Account.

“The variety of these grants, whether it is investing in new police vehicles and equipment, updating a wastewater treatment plant or developing a multipurpose field house, show a continued commitment to public safety and economic development,” Miller said. “Advocating for our cities and municipalities for necessary updates will continue the progress we have become accustomed to seeing in the Lehigh Valley.”

Project awards include Whitehall Township, $75,000 for a utility tractor and mowing attachments; Coplay Borough, $300,000 for a street sweeper truck; and Lehigh County, $68,000 for new cameras for the coroner’s office in South Whitehall Township and $290,662 for an Emergency Operations Center technology upgrade project.

Additional projects include Catasauqua Borough, $217,802 for a street sweeper; Hanover Township, Lehigh County, $336,059 for the Sherwood Park improvement project and $570,467 to construct a multipurpose field house at First Responders Park; Moore Township, $69,775 for a new crack sealer, $65,000 for two new police vehicles, $25,000 for a new asphalt roller, $50,000 for an upfitted work truck and $30,348 for a speed alert trailer and three radar speed signs; Allen Township, $1 million to support the renovation of a new township administration facility; Bath Borough, $247,271 for a new dump truck; Bath Borough Authority, $450,000 to construct a new well and well house; Lehigh Township Municipal Authority, $702,000 for a wastewater treatment plant upgrade and expansion project; and North Catasauqua Borough, $107,573 for a municipal police vehicle with upfitting.

“This funding is crucial to boosting both community and economic development,” Miller said. “As the fastest growing region in the commonwealth, the Lehigh Valley needs to provide residents with the resources they need.”