Harmar, Cheswick and Springdale Township were awarded a $250,000 state grant — about half of what they requested — to fix the pothole-riddled Low Grade Road.
The road, almost a mile long, has been plagued by major drainage problems for years.
State Sen. Lindsey M. Williams, D-West View, pushed for the grant from the Allegheny County Gaming Economic Development Fund and the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development’s Multimodal Transportation Program.
The planned project calls for clearing trees, improving drainage and repairing the road.
Harmar Manager Ian Fitzgerald said the township has previously sought grant money to pay for improvements, but was turned down. He said residents and workers at Curtiss-Wright Electro-Mechanical Corp., which is located at the top of Low Grade Road, have complained about potholes along the road for years.
“It’s good we got the grant because it involves three communities,” Fitzgerald said.
With a lesser amount of money to work with than was sought, Senate Engineering will revise the scope of work and the three communities will decide on the project details, Fitzgerald said.
He expects work to start on the road project sometime in 2020.
