The city of Wilkes-Barre announced a $150,000 state grant for repairs on Horton Street, where two sinkholes opened last summer.
The Horton Street Infrastructure Improvements Project involves upgrading more than 100-year-old sanitary and stormwater infrastructure systems. Two sinkholes opened on Horton Street last summer due to a water leak and sanitary sewer collapse.
The improvement projects are expected to cost $1,682,590 in total.
The funding, announced Wednesday by Wilkes-Barre Mayor George Brown and State Rep. Eddie Day Pashinski, comes from the Keystone Community Initiative Program through Pennsylvania's Department of Community and Economic Development.
— Haley O'Brien