Lansford residents are seeing where the $350,000 the borough agreed to chip in to save a multi-million-dollar federal grant secured by the Coaldale-Lansford-Summit Hill Sewer Authority is going.

Borough Council President Joe Genits explained Tuesday that the trucks and workers that folks are seeing around town are from the company the authority hired for the $2.5 million grant-funded infiltration project.

All three boroughs agreed to kick in $350,000 each toward the $1.4 million match needed for the grant.

The sewer authority also put in $350.000 toward the total for the project, which includes scoping the lines to see where groundwater is seeping in.

Cracks, leaking and broken pipes will be identified and where possible addressed by slip lining, or coating, those pipes to prevent further infiltration.

The borough posted that there would be no parking in the 300-, 400- and 500-blocks of Kline Avenue Wednesday for sewer work. Vehicles needed to be moved by 6:45 a.m. and remain off the street throughout the day to allow the contractor’s trucks access, Genits said.

The borough was notified Tuesday that parking needed to be restricted on the street, Genits said, but otherwise the borough hasn’t been given any advance notice of when or where work would be done.

“They’re not staying in one town,” Genits said. “They’re moving around, according to their map and planning.”

The authority wanted to address the areas they believed were the worst first, he explained, and then move on to lower priority areas as funding allows.

Lansford and the other two boroughs needed to pay $50,000 each toward their $350,000 commitment by April 30 of this year.

An additional payment of $100,000 is due by Sept. 30 of this year, and two more payments of $100,000 each are due by Sept. 30 of 2027 and 2028.

This infiltration project is part of a larger overall project that needs to be done to bring a mid-1960s sewer plant and collection system up to the current state and federal standards, Councilman Jack Soberick said earlier this year.

Each borough, not the sewer authority, he said, has to come up with an Act 537 plan, which will address those compliance and upgrade issues.

It’s not clear whether the borough started those discussions or planning.

The borough is also dealing with recent personnel changes at ARRO Consulting, which serves as the borough engineer, Genits said. Two employees that worked closely with the borough recently left the firm.