Glen Campbell gets $1.1 million in PennVEST grant and loan for water system

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Two municipalities in state Sen. Joe Pittman’s 41st District, Glen Campbell in eastern Indiana County and Ford City in central Armstrong County, will benefit from nearly $2.8 million worth of projects approved Friday by the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority.

Pittman, R-Indiana, a member of the PennVEST board, and Rep. Brian Smith, R-Punxsutawney, said Glen Campbell will receive a $923,616 grant and a $187,384 low interest loan to replace a water storage tank and equipment at its water treatment plant including filter units, softeners and brine unit, the groundwater well pump and distribution pumps.

“This is an important project to ensure that Glen Campbell Borough residents continue to have safe and clean water for years to come,” Smith said. “Once again, I am pleased to have the opportunity to work together with community leaders and Sen. Pittman to secure this extremely competitive funding to cost-effectively maintain and upgrade our local water infrastructure without a crippling rate increase.”

It follows a 2002 PennVEST award of a $1.4 million grant and a $72,500 loan to install 16,750 feet of sanitary sewers and build that 34,000 gallon-per-day sewage treatment plant in Glen Campbell.

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I grew up on a small farm outside Smithport, PA, near Glen Campbell, PA (not named for the singer) in the 1950's. The area had the cleanest drinking water until strip mining came in and ruined it. We moved.
The borough was named in 1889 for Cornelius Campbell, the first superintendent of the Glenwood Coal Company (glen is the Scottish word for valley), which mined in that area.

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1. I'm glad they got this

but can the strip miners be sued, too?

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2. The strip mines there were about 50 years ago

I think they had to pay something.
Plus cover up the stripped area and plant trees.

The area that was stripped and destroyed our farm is now covered in trees and is a PA state game land.

Pennsylvania State Game Lands
“The Game Commission owns and manages more than 1.5 million acres of state game lands throughout the Commonwealth. The primary purpose of these lands is the management of habitat for wildlife ...”