Gov. Tom Wolf announced Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, that Marion Township will receive nearly $3.8 million in grants to fund the construction of a public sewer system in Boyers. The two ponds and tiny pump house that comprise the current sewer plant will be removed and the new plant built on the current location of the ponds. Cary Shaffer/Butler Eagle

The owners of 96 homes and 15 businesses in the Boyers area of Marion Township should be elated today, as their longtime sewage problems soon will be a thing of the past — and without a tap-in fee.

Gov. Tom Wolf announced Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, that Marion Township will receive nearly $3.8 million of the $45 million released to municipalities in Community Development Block Grants.

That grant is the final piece in the puzzle to fund the construction of a public sewer system for 111 customers who are either on the failing lagoon sewer system or whose on-lot septic systems are failing and allowing standing sewage to collect on their properties.

The township inherited the aging lagoon sewer system more than 50 years ago after it was left for 24 Boyers residents when an industrial plant moved out.

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