Lawrence County Announces $800,000 in Paving and Transportation Grants Awarded to 16 Municipalities

Lawrence County Board of Commissioners announced Tuesday that $800,000.00 has been allocated by the county to assist 16 municipalities with 38 paving projects, 3 culvert replacements, 1 stormwater reclamation project, and 5 capital purchases.

This investment represents the single largest general appropriation of county transportation funds for municipal transportation projects ever approved by Lawrence County.

This funding supplements municipal funding for road repairs and capital purchases and assists with $3,287,143.09 in total countywide transportation investments. Funding for this program comes from the Liquid Fuels Fund and the Vehicle Registration Fee Fund.

Each municipality that applied for funding under the program is receiving at least one Lawrence County Transportation Improvement Program grant.

The Lawrence County recipients, their amounts allocated and projects are:

• City of New Castle, South Mill Street, $50,000
• Hickory Township, purchase of a Peterbilt dump truck, $50,000
• Hickory Township, repairing of Devil’s Elbow Road culvert, $24,708.37
• Mahoning Township, Hillsville Road, Gasperoni Drive and West Main Street, $49,500
• Neshannock Township, Long Branch Drive, Arrowhead Court, Sequoia Drive, Seneca Court and Moccasin Trail, $50,000
• Neshannock Township, Sunset Valley and Valley roads, $50,000
• New Beaver Borough, Clyde Street Extension, $31,719.60
• New Beaver Borough, Old Route 18, $16,264.40
• North Beaver Township, Gilmore Road culvert, $8,580
• Plain Grove Township, stormwater reclamation on Hilmer Road, $21,742.80
• Pulaski Township, Hillsville, Fair Acres, Hillside and English roads and Oak Street Extension, $21,640
• Pulaski Township, purchase of a Gledhill 11-foot plow and signs, $9,794.39
• Shenango Township, Links Drive, Ridgewood Court, Karon Drive and Pleasantview Drive, $50,000
• Shenango Township, Old Butler, Rose Stop, Hollow, Station and Boyd School roads, Douglas Drive and Hoover Road, $50,000
• Slippery Rock Township, purchase of a Massey Ferguson tractor with a 22-foot boom mower, $50,000
• Slippery Rock Township, McConnell’s Mill Road, $48,000
• South New Castle Borough, South Jefferson Street, $31,071.81
• Union Township, purchase of a Ford F650 diesel truck, $$20,347.87
• Wampum Borough, Charles and Ella streets, $23,940.38
• Wampum Borough, purchase of a Ford F600 dump truck, $23,321.75
• Washington Township, repair of Jordan Road culvert, 8,463
• Wayne Township, River Road, $50,000
• Wilmington Township, Gerber, Indian Run, Yoder and Cottage Grove roads, $50,000.