06/25/2026
Yesterday, CP Engineers in partnership with Port Royal Municipal Authority celebrated our groundbreaking on a project that closes a chapter Pennsylvania has been working toward for decades.
The Port Royal Wastewater Treatment Plant is believed to operate one of the last remaining direct discharges of untreated sewage in the Commonwealth.
$3.8 million in combined federal and state investment makes its upgrades possible:
→ A $500K federal earmark from Senator Fetterman funds a new UV disinfection system — eliminating hazardous chemical handling entirely
→ A $3.3M PennVEST State Revolving Fund loan expands the pump station and permanently eliminates sanitary sewer overflows to the Juniata River
This is what partnership looks like. PENNVEST (PA Infrastructure Investment Authority), Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, the Port Royal Municipal Authority, and Senator Fetterman's office all showed up — for a small borough that did exactly what you're supposed to do: identified the problem, built the coalition, and got it done.
Thank you to our very own Brian Book, Renee Fry, representing Rep. Perry Stambaugh; Rhonda Kelly, the executive director of the Juniata River Valley Chamber of Commerce; Tesra Schlupp of PennVEST, Frank Zgoda, P.E. of CP Engineers, Duane Hart of Port Royal Municipal Authority, John Breneman, representing Senator Judy Ward; Steve Auker, Steve Roselle; Leon Zimmerman of L*Z Electric, Dave Ault from Sipple, Juniata County Commissioner Alice Gray, Juniata County Commissioner Mark Partner, and Stanley Puszcz, P.E., CEO at CP Engineers.
We're proud to have led the engineering. Prouder still to have watched a community deliver a landmark environmental outcome.