On June 25th, civil engineers from across Pennsylvania released a new Report Card for Pennsylvania’s Infrastructure giving 16 grades for the state's infrastructure - from bridges to water to school facilities. The Report Card found that Pennsylvania faces immense challenges to maintaining and modernizing infrastructure throughout the state:
The 2014 Pennsylvania Report Card provides three recommendations to move Pennsylvania forward:
To raise Pennsylvania’s grades, the Commonwealth’s leaders need to keep up momentum started by the Act-89 for transportation and start working on the state’s other infrastructure issues. Congress also needs to keep the momentum going from the passage of water resources reform and focus on fixing the Highway Trust Fund. Pennsylvania has done their part to fix and fund their transportation network and so should Congress.
Read the full Report Card at www.pareportcard.org.
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Bridges
Dams
Drinking Water
Energy
Hazardous Waste
Inland Waterways
Levees
Parks
Ports
Rail
Roads
School Facilities
Solid Waste
Stormwater
Transit
WastewaterA: Exceptional, B: Good, C: Mediocre, D: Poor, F: Failing, ?: Incomplete
Each category was evaluated on the basis of capacity, condition, funding, future need, operation and maintenance, public safety, resilience, and innovation
Aviation
63 public-use airports
Bridges
5,218 of the 22,660 bridges are structurally deficient
Bridges
$429.30 million in bridge funds came from the Federal Highway Bridge Fund in 2011
Dams
96% of the state regulated dams have an Emergency Action Plan
Dams
767 high hazard dams
Drinking Water
$14.2 billion in drinking water infrastructure needs over the next 20 years
Energy
6.577 gigawatt-hours of renewable energy every year, ranking it 17th
Hazardous Waste
96 sites on the National Priorities List
Inland Waterways
260 miles of inland waterways, ranking it 28th nationally
Levees
199 miles of levees
Ports
70.4 million short tons of cargo in 2012, ranking it 11th nationally
Public Parks
$24.5 million of unmet needs for its parks system
Rail
55 freight railroads covering 5,071 miles across the state, ranking 5th nationally by mileage
Roads
15,615 of the state’s 119,846 public roads are major roads, and 15% are in poor condition
Roads
$3.7 billion a year in costs to motorists from driving on roads in need of repair, which is $424 /yr per motorist
Schools
$9.3 billion in estimated school infrastructure funding needs
Transit
450 million annual unlinked passenger trips via transit systems including bus, transit, and commuter trains
Wastewater
$17.9 billion in wastewater infrastructure needs over the next 20 years
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