Renovo Grant Efforts Continue
LOCK HAVEN — The effort to get better than $4 million in infrastructure improvements for Renovo continues.
Alan Uhler of the State College engineering firm of Uhler and Associates gave an update to the Clinton County Commissioners at their work session on Monday.
The Uhler firm is working on behalf of Renovo to try and secure a 100 percent grant through the state’s Pennvest program.
Uhler explained the Pennvest application project and said the state agency can provide low costs loans or outright grants or some combination of the two. He said there currently is $12 million in the Pennvest coffers and expressed some level of optimism Renovo will be successful in obtaining a grant.
The western Clinton County borough is looking for financial assistance to upgrade a borough water tank and to do away with shared water lines going into adjacent Renovo residences.
Uhler called the water line situation complex, stating that once the work is carried out 125 residences would have their own water line. Installation of 22 fire hydrants would also be part of the project.
The work area would include Huron Avenue and parts of Ontario Avenue.
Uhler said the borough should receive word of any grant sometime in mid to late April. If successful, a closing would be held in July with construction beginning in August.
The Pennvest effort is in addition to an ongoing grant effort from the regional planning agency SEDA-COG. That Lewisburg-based organization is seeking $750,000 in Community Development Block Grant funds for work in the area of Ontario Avenue.
