Kazeem helps secure $20 million state grant to protect Delaware County waterways from contaminants

Rep. Carol Kazeem July 16, 2025 | 12:01 PM

HARRISBURG, July 16 – The Delaware County Regional Water Quality Control Authority was awarded $20 million in state grant funding to help eliminate inadequately-treated sewage from the authority's waterways thanks to assistance from state Rep. Carol Kazeem, D-Delaware.

DELCORA will use the $20 million Pennvest grant to demolish and reconstruct the launder and mechanism of one of the existing 175-foot diameter final clarifiers. DELCORA will also install a new chemical odor control scrubber inside a rehabilitated structure.

“The water flowing through Delaware County’s waterways impacts everything, from the water we drink, to the spaces in which we live and play, to the places where we work,” Kazeem said. “Safeguarding the health of our waterways is the key to protecting the public health, to promoting a safe and clean local environment and to ensuring a flourishing local economy. The Shapiro Administration’s critical investment in Delaware County’s infrastructure will help protect our families, our environment and our jobs for decades to come.”

The Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority provides low-interest loans and grants for new construction or for improvements to publicly or privately-owned drinking water, storm water or sewage treatment facilities, as well as non-point source pollution prevention best management practices. Pennvest also provides loan funding to remediate brownfields sites, as well as loan funding to individual homeowners for repair or replacement of their malfunctioning on-lot septic system or first-time connection to a public sewer collection system. The Advance Funding Program provides low-interest loans to provide funding for the design and engineering needed to improve water and wastewater management systems.

Learn more: Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority (PennVEST) - PA Department of Community & Economic Development.

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