(File Photo of Congressman Chris Deluzio)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Carnegie, PA) According to a release from Congressman Chris Deluzio in Carnegie today, Deluzio (PA-17) announced today that two of his requested community projects successfully received more than $1.2 million in federal funding. $1,015,000 will go to the Ambridge Borough Recreational Center in Beaver County and $200,000 will assist in both financing Tarentum’s water treatment plant and for upgrades for pump houses in the A-K Valley. November 12th, 2025 was when the funding was approved. Deluzio helped to secure federal funding of $1,015,000 for the Ambridge Borough Recreational Center, which will repurpose a former site of a steel mill brownfield into an asset for the region that will promote development for economics and provide opportunities for recreation for surrounding communities. The facility plans include courts for basketball, pickleball, and volleyball, batting cages, basketball shooting machines, a mini shooting gallery for the sport of volleyball, futsal, and basketball, a turf field, as well as multipurpose fields. The facility will also host sports tournaments and other services like health screenings, educational programs and job training programs. Deluzio also assisted to secure federal funding of $200,000 for the Tarentum Water treatment plant and pump house upgrade project, which will support critical upgrades for mechanical and electrical reasons at the municipal water plant. This project modernizes the main pump house by the installation of smart variable-speed pumps to improve efficiency of energy and flow control, replacing water lines that are aging to ensure reliability and reduce the loss of water loss and upgrading electrical systems that are outdated to meet current safety and operational standards. These improvements will help improve delivery of service to residents and will strengthen infrastructure resilience that is long-term.