Gov. Josh Shapiro intends to stop the federal government from opening two massive immigration detention facilities in Schuylkill and Berks counties.

“I want to be clear: I don’t want either of these sites here in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania,” Shapiro said Thursday after meeting with county officials at the Berks County Agricultural Center in Leesport.

The Department of Homeland Security is planning an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Tremont Township and another in Upper Bern Township, near Hamburg in Berks County.

“I intend to use every tool available at my disposal to stop these facilities from coming here,” Shapiro said, citing health, environmental and economic concerns.

He threatened similar action earlier this month in a letter penned to Kristi Noem, DHS secretary.

“If you press ahead, my administration will aggressively pursue every option to prevent these facilities from opening and needlessly harming the good people of Pennsylvania,” Shapiro wrote.

On Thursday, Shapiro met with county commissioners, state lawmakers and infrastructure employees to discuss what he called the “negative impacts” the centers would have.

The Schuylkill site, a former Big Lots distribution center, was purchased by the government in January for $119 million. It could host about 7,500 detainees, making it the county’s second largest “community.”

“In Tremont, if this is built, they will literally run out of water within 24 hours,” Shapiro said.

It’s estimated that the facility could require up to 800,000 gallons of water each day to serve detainees and the thousands more who will work there. Tremont’s water system, he said, struggles to serve 700 households with an average of 10,400 gallons a day and often relies on emergency water supplies brought in by tanker trucks.

And, Shapiro noted, addressing sewage and wastewater from the proposed facility would be near impossible.

Shapiro said health care is another concern, since communities barely have enough providers to serve their residents.

And, he said, the facilities would strap volunteer fire companies and ambulance services, not to mention the counties’ 911 communication centers.

“Through it all,” Shapiro said of Thursday’s discussions, “there was a lot of conversation just about how this would diminish the quality of life in both Berks and Schuylkill counties.”

Shapiro said discussions didn’t become political.

“At times, you wouldn’t know who was the Democrat and who was the Republican. Folks were universal in expressing their concerns about this,” he said.

Lawmakers, he added, were equally frustrated that they haven’t been receiving any answers from the federal government.

Shapiro said he will do everything in his legal and regulatory powers to keep the facilities out of Pennsylvania.

“After concluding this meeting here today, I’m even more determined to do everything in my power to stop these facilities. To hear from Republicans and Democrats alike expressing opposition to this I think speaks volumes on how unwanted these facilities are,” he said.

The Berks site, also a former warehouse, was bought by the federal government in January for $87.4 million.