The former Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove and present day Horsham Air Guard Station is shown in Horsham, Pa.
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Pennsylvania boosts aid for clean water near military bases
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The Associated Press
Matt Rourke / AP Photo
The former Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove and present day Horsham Air Guard Station is shown in Horsham, Pa.
(Harrisburg) — Municipalities in Pennsylvania that are paying to clean up water contaminated with toxic industrial compounds from military installations such as Willow Grove Naval Air Station in Montgomery County will get more state help.
Legislation signed this week by Governor Tom Wolf allows municipal authorities to get permission to redirect a portion of state tax revenue generated from the reuse of former military installations contaminated with perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
The money could be used to eliminate surcharges that local ratepayers have been paying.
The legislation also directs a state water infrastructure agency, the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority, to create a program to help clean up the chemicals.
The state thus far has marshaled more than $20 million in aid for contamination in towns near Willow Grove and the former Naval Air Warfare Center.
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