Confluence Is Getting $300,000 to Repave Casselman and Railroad Streets
Confluence Borough lands $300,000 to repave Casselman and Railroad streets, part of $1.9 million in state LSA grants for Somerset County announced Sept. 15.
Somerset County just got handed a little more than $1.9 million in state Local Share Account money, and Confluence walked away with the biggest municipal slice of it.
Rep. Carl Walker Metzgar and Sen. Pat Stefano announced the awards on September 15. Confluence Borough is getting $300,000 to mill and repave Casselman Street and Railroad Street. If you have driven either one lately, you already know why that number matters.
Lower Turkeyfoot Township is getting $142,712 to buy a non-CDL truck with attachments, which is the kind of unglamorous purchase that quietly decides how fast your road gets plowed in February. Salisbury Borough is getting $200,000 to replace reservoir equipment.
The full Somerset County list
- Confluence Borough: $300,000 to mill and repave Casselman Street and Railroad Street
- Somerset County Redevelopment Authority: $279,945 to renovate the Shoemaker Home in Somerset Township
- Quemahoning Township: $234,185 for a multi-purpose truck
- Central City Water Authority: $200,000 to replace aging water infrastructure between Shade Street and Pine Street
- Salisbury Borough: $200,000 to replace reservoir equipment
- Shanksville Stonycreek Joint Sewer Authority: $196,874 to rehabilitate the sewage pumping station in Stonycreek Township
- Milford Township: $162,750 to repair Greenhouse Road
- Shade Central City Joint Authority: $150,000 for a de-chlorination facility in Shade Township
- Lower Turkeyfoot Township: $142,712 for a non-CDL truck with attachments
- Somerset County Redevelopment Authority: $43,951 for improvements to the Laurel Arts Education and Dance Center
- Boswell Borough Municipal Authority: $30,000 for leak detection equipment
Where the money comes from
Local Share Account grants are approved and awarded by the Commonwealth Financing Authority, an independent agency that handles funding for economic growth programs across Pennsylvania. Small boroughs and townships lean on LSA money hard, because paving a street out of a general fund that size is usually not a real option.
“Securing this funding is a responsibility I take seriously, and I’m proud to have delivered these investments for Somerset County,” Metzgar said in the announcement. “These dollars will go a long way toward addressing pressing community needs and improving the quality of life for everyone who calls Somerset County home.”
Stefano pointed at the same thing from the other direction. “This funding was meant to be directly invested in Somerset County communities,” he said. “From improving our roads to strengthening public safety, these projects address critical needs that will have a lasting impact on our neighbors.”
No timeline has been announced yet for when the Confluence paving work actually starts. Watch the borough council agenda.
Source: Office of Rep. Carl Walker Metzgar, September 15, 2026