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For Immediate Release
April 14, 2009
Contact: Sally Kohr
(717) 787-4651

1.25 Million Dollar Grant for Antrim Township Municipal Authority 

Antrim Township, Franklin County  – “Pennsylvania Governor  Ed Rendell recently approved a $1.25 million grant to the Antrim Township Municipal Authority that will allow it to expand its water treatment capacity and opens the way for a merger with the Greencastle Area Franklin County Water Authority”, Senator Richard Alloway II, R-33rd said. 

“The Franklin County Area Development Corporation and the borough and township authorities asked me to help secure the grant,” Alloway said. “I spoke directly with the Governor and expressed to him the importance of this project to our area. He listened and approved the grant and I thank him for that.”

“I applaud the two authorities for working together to save the taxpayers money and improve service to their customers,” Alloway said. “The two authorities met on Monday and endorsed a plan to merge the services, which will open the door to development at Exit 3, an area designated for industrial development”, he said.

“This will unlock all of the commercial potential over there,” Alloway said. “This will mean more good-paying jobs and a broader tax base for the township, borough, Greencastle-Antrim School District and Franklin County.”

The grant application was to improve filtration at the ATMA plant to increase its daily capacity from approximately 160,000 gallons closer to its permitted capacity of more than 800,000 gallons a day.

“That grant was really the catalyst for the sale of the Antrim Township Municipal Authority to the Greencastle Area Franklin County Water Authority,” said L. Michael Ross, President of the Franklin County Area Development Corporation, which prepared the grant application. “The net result is it expands the treatment capacity of the Antrim Township Municipal Authority which will allow it to serve the proposed development around Exit 3.”

“The Senator’s personal involvement and leadership in this were essential,” Ross said. “He spoke with the Governor, the Secretary of Transportation and the Secretary of the Department of Community and Economic Development to emphasize the importance of this project, not only to Franklin County, but the rest of Pennsylvania.”