Casey says recent federal investments in Shenandoah, Schuylkill Co. ‘unprecedented’
KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL - U.S. Senator Bob Casey talks to the media during a press availability on Feb. 20, 2024.
HOMETOWN – During a press availability Tuesday after a tour of EMD Electronics, U.S. Senator Bob Casey referred to recent federal investments in Schuylkill County, like the Shenandoah innovation center, Frackville grade reconstruction, and more, are ‘unprecedented’ and unseen in decades.
“I’m not sure we’ve ever seen, at least in my lifetime, the kinds of investments in communities that we’ve seen in the past couple of years,” Casey said. “The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, IIJA, that alone, plus the American Rescue Plan, plus other investments, it’s really unprecedented.”
“Just consider Route 61, those improvements, $21 Million,” Casey added. “Places like Shenandoah getting direct help, sometimes originating with the American Rescue Plan.”
He said the ARP saved “virtually every county in the state” from major layoffs or financial crisis during the COVID pandemic.
“It also helped a lot of local boroughs and township across the state,” Casey said.
He said that Orwigsburg received a sizable federal investment for a sewer project recently.
In Shenandoah, the planned Center for Education, Business, and the Arts has received $1.9 Million in federal grants so far, and the Shenandoah Sewer Authority received a $5.4 Million federal grant to replace the sewer plant near William Penn in 2018. That project is still in the design phase.
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