Shaler awarded $208,000 from ALCOSAN for sewer work along Saxonburg Boulevard

Shaler has been awarded nearly $208,000 from the Allegheny County Sanitary Authority (ALCOSAN) for sewer work in the township.

The money will help pay for the second phase of the township’s Saxonburg Boulevard sewer lining project, Engineer Matt Sebastian said.

“It involves the lining of about 2,500 linear feet of sanitary sewer lines along Saxonburg Boulevard,” Sebastian said.

The total cost for Phase 2 is expected to be about $260,780.

The grant was made available through ALCOSAN’s Green Revitalization of Our Waterways (GROW) program and is part of $15.1 million in grants doled out across the region.

Sebastian said the work will affect properties along Saxonburg Boulevard by reducing inflow and infiltration (I&I) into the sanitary sewer system.

“The amount of I&I removal will be determined by flow monitoring but it is predicted that the project could remove up to 40% of groundwater infiltration and up to 15% of rain-derived inflow and infiltration,” Sebastian said.

In its fifth round of funding, ALCOSAN distributed 27 grants for work that includes sewer separation and green stormwater infrastructure, and that are expected to remove 48 million gallons of overflow from the region each year.

Created by ALCOSAN in 2016, the GROW program’s first four grant cycles have offered $28 million for 101 projects and leveraged another $25 million in municipal, authority and third-party funding. The projects are expected to reduce the volume of overflows into the region’s waterways by nearly 140 million gallons.

The sixth phase of GROW funding is expected to open later this year.

For more information, visit alcosan.org.