The Public Safety/Economic Maintenance/Property Maintenance meeting scheduled for Tuesday May 14th has been moved to Wednesday May 8th at 6:00 p.m. The meeting will be held at the Borough Hall 307 Main Street. This meeting is open to the public. We hope to see some of you there.

The Catawissa Water Authority will be flushing Fire Hydrants Monday May 6th during the daytime hours starting at 8 a.m. You may experience low water pressure and discoloration of the water.

Catawissa Borough has a tax exemption for new construction and renovations under the Local Economic Revitalization Tax Assistance Act.

Under the Local Economic Revitalization Tax Assistance Act (“LERTA”), 72 P.S. §4722 et seq., Catawissa Borough is a local taxing authority that has the power to provide tax exemption for new construction in “deteriorated areas”; and

The Catawissa Borough Council has the authority to implement a $10,000 minimum cost amount in renovations and/or new construction for current residential housing, at the abated schedule of 10% a year for 10 years. New construction would be initially taxed at 50% of appraised value with an abated schedule of 10% a year for 5 years.

You can print/download the LERTA application from below.

If you receive a call from a company posing as Catawissa Billing Collections do not give out any of your financial or personal information. This is a scam!!

The Borough does all of the utility billing and collection of payments in house. The Borough does not use a third party service.

If you are concerned about your utility billing please call the Borough Office at 570-356-2561.