(FIle Photo of the Montgomery Locks and Dam)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Washington, D.C.) According to a release in Washington D.C. from Congressman Chris Deluzio’s office yesterday, Deluzio (PA-17) announced that four more of his requested community projects successfully received over $185 million in federal funding in the spending bills passed yesterday by the U.S. House of Representatives. The single biggest item of those four is the funding to help modernize the Montogomery Locks and Dam along the Ohio River in Beaver County, with more funding for both local water infrastructure and police equipment. According to that same release from Delzuio’s office, the $185,356,000 in funding breaks down across the following four projects: 

• $183,829,000 for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ mega project to modernize the Montogomery Locks and Dam in Beaver County  

• $900,000 for the Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa to purchase updated wastewater treatment equipment  

• $502,000 for Ross Township Police Department to purchase body-worn cameras  

• $125,000 for the Allegheny Valley Regional Police Department to purchase a police river patrol boat