The county commissioners took action Wednesday aimed at reducing the monthly bills Boyers residents would pay for a new sewage treatment system.

Commissioners unanimously voted to apply to the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development for a $3.75 million grant from a competitive Community Development Block Grant-Coronavirus program for the sewage project.

The CDBG-COVID program is part of the federal Coronavirus, Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act.

The grant, combined with $1 million in CDBG funding previously obtained by the county for the project, would result in residents paying approximately $56 a month for sewage service.

That amount is significantly less than the $95 a month residents would pay under the project financing arranged by Marion Township supervisors, county officials said.

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