Congressman Keating Working For You

Throughout Congressman Bill Keating’s tenure, communities across Massachusetts’ 9th Congressional District have received significant federal investments in infrastructure, public safety, housing, transportation, environmental protection, economic development, education, health care, and other local priorities.

The following is a county-by-county accounting of federal funding delivered to communities across the district, including congressionally directed funding secured by Congressman Keating.

Regional Multi-County Projects

2026

  • Barnstable County — $3,150,000: Children’s Cove Child Advocacy Center Project

2025

  • Martha’s Vineyard/Dukes County — $15,000,000: Martha’s Vineyard Airport terminal renovation and expansion

2024

  • Cape Cod Bridges/Sagamore Bridge — approximately $993 million: Bridge Investment Program grant
  • Cape Cod Bridges — $350 million: FY2024 Energy & Water appropriations
  • Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority — $14,613,149: Low-emission buses, workforce training and transition equipment
  • Martha’s Vineyard Transit Authority — $3,882,375: Battery-electric buses, charging equipment and apprenticeship program
  • Wareham/Agawam River watershed — $3,700,000: Barrier removals and habitat restoration
  • Barnstable County — $1,618,000: Cape Abilities electric-vehicle replacement/transit for adults with disabilities

2023

  • Cape Cod Bridges/Sagamore Bridge — $372 million: MEGA grant
  • Cape Cod Canal/Bourne–Sandwich — $7,200,000: Maintenance dredging with Town Neck Beach beneficial reuse
  • Barnstable County — $3,460,000: Independence House domestic/sexual violence victim-services facility
  • Martha’s Vineyard Airport — $1,000,000: Wastewater Treatment Facility upgrades
  • Cape Cod Bay/Stellwagen Bank — $1,000,000: Seafloor and ocean-resource mapping and characterization
  • Barnstable County — $959,040: Cape Abilities vocational training for people with disabilities
  • Cape Cod Regional Safety Action Plan — $240,000

2022

  • New Bedford/Fairhaven Harbor — $72,700,000: New Bedford Harbor Superfund cleanup completion
  • Cape Cod Healthcare — $1,500,000: Electronic health records and care-coordination project
  • Barnstable County/Cape Cod — $1,150,000: Septic-system management and nitrogen-reduction technical assistance

2020

  • Martha’s Vineyard Airport — $366,016: Environmental study

Bristol County

  • 2026

    • New Bedford — $1,031,000: Harbor Safety Police Vessel for the Port of New Bedford
    • Westport — $1,092,000: Trunk Water and Sewer — Sections 2 and 3

    2024

    • New Bedford — $1,211,490: New Bedford Regional Airport service-road improvements
    • New Bedford — $800,000: Workforce Training and Development Center
    • New Bedford — $500,000: YWCA Residential Services Renovation Project
    • New Bedford — $189,813: Safe Streets for All demonstration projects

    2023

    • New Bedford — $1,749,360: Blue Lane Working Waterfront Connector — pre-construction
    • New Bedford — $750,000: YMCA Southcoast expansion/capital improvements
    • New Bedford — $563,000: Equitable public-safety and mental, behavioral and public-health programs. The official FY2023 delegation announcement confirms $563,000, rather than the $536,000 figure appearing on the campaign accomplishments page. 
    • Raynham — $200,000: North Raynham Water District service-line inventory and replacement plan

    *Raynham is divided between congressional districts, so this remains flagged for geographic attribution.

    2022

    • New Bedford — $5,500,000: 14 zero-emission school buses and charging infrastructure
    • New Bedford — $2,000,000: Greater New Bedford Community Health Center facilities/equipment and capital improvements
    • New Bedford — $2,000,000: Bristol Community College National Offshore Wind Institute. Bristol Community College confirms the $2 million Community Project Funding award, and NOWI is located on the New Bedford waterfront. 
    • New Bedford — $975,000: Southcoast Health/St. Luke’s Hospital Trauma Center Step-Down Unit. The enacted FY2022 list gives $975,000, rather than the rounded $1 million figure on the campaign page. 
    • New Bedford — $375,000: Veterans Transition House. The federal FY2022 list identifies the $375,000 award, and Veterans Transition House says it came through Congressman Keating’s office. 
    • Westport — $30,000: Snell Creek headwaters land protection. 

    2020

    • Acushnet — $15,000: Tripps Mill Brook headwaters land protection
    • Westport — $10,214: Innovative and Alternative Septic System Tracking Program. 

Plymouth County

2026
    • Mattapoisett — $3,500,000: Mattapoisett Neck Road culvert replacement
    • Scituate — $1,145,144: Cedar Point Seawall
    • Bridgewater — $1,000,000: MBTA Platform Relocation Project
    • Rockland — $1,092,000: Wastewater Treatment Plant and Collection System Upgrades — Phase 1
    • Wareham — $1,092,000: Water Pollution Control Facility/Sewer Improvements — Phase 2

    2024

    • Plymouth — $10,000,000: Jenney Pond Dam nature-like fishway bypass/Town Brook restoration
    • Wareham — $815,000: Regional Food Pantry Facility
    • Carver — $500,000: Clean Drinking Water for Affordable Housing
    • Plymouth — $75,000: Plymouth Municipal Airport environmental assessment, Phase 3

    2023

    • Scituate — $5,500,000: Scituate Harbor north jetty rehabilitation following storm damage
    • Pembroke — $3,000,000: Pembroke Community Center
    • Marshfield — $2,900,000: Green Harbor federal navigation project maintenance dredging
    • Plymouth — $2,500,000: Wastewater Treatment Plant new tertiary filter
    • Plymouth — $2,000,000: Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital–Plymouth Emergency Department expansion/25-bed observation unit
    • Plymouth — $2,000,000: Old Colony YMCA Childcare Center expansion
    • Bridgewater — $1,358,000: Bridgewater State University aviation program expansion
    • Pembroke — $205,220: Lead-service-line inventory/replacement plan
    • Middleborough — $57,800: Lead-service-line inventory/replacement plan

    The FY2023 congressional delegation announcement independently confirms the major Bridgewater, Plymouth and Pembroke projects in this group. 

    2022

    • Plymouth — $2,000,000: Town Brook Stream Restoration — Deep Water Culvert Replacement
    • Rochester — $70,000: Mattapoisett River Valley aquifer land protection
    • Mattapoisett — $35,000: Shipyard Lane stormwater strategic master plan
    • Mattapoisett — $35,000: Brandt Island Cove land protection
    • Carver — $12,500: MS4 compliance engineering designs. 

    2021

    • Mattapoisett — $45,000: Mattapoisett River riverfront land protection
    • Carver — $45,000: Great South Meadow Cedar Swamp land protection
    • Rochester — $20,640: Doggett Brook conservation restriction. 

    2020

    • Duxbury — $6,100,000: March 2018 nor’easter seawall and coastal-infrastructure repairs
    • Plymouth — $3,986,590: Plymouth Municipal Airport taxiway reconfiguration
    • Marion — $50,000: Aucoot Cove watershed land protection
    • Carver — $20,946: Aquifer/Indian Brook land protection
    • Rochester — $20,946: Sippican River headwaters land protection
    • Carver — $8,500: Transfer of Development Rights bylaw update for water-resource protection. 

      Programmed Future Funding

      • Mattapoisett — approximately $12.5 million federal share, FY2028–30: Main Street/Water Street/Beacon Street/Old Marion Road reconstruction. Programmed, not yet treated as an awarded historical grant.

    Cape Cod and the Islands

    • 2026

      • Mashpee — $1,152,000: Plaza Del Sol Transitional Housing Project
      • Barnstable – $1.38 Million SAFER Grant-federal funding will support the addition of six career firefighter positions

      2024

      • Sandwich — $8,950,000: Town Neck Beach nourishment/Cape Cod Canal shore-damage mitigation
      • Falmouth — $1,616,279: Community Track & Gymnasium
      • Mashpee — $1,000,000: Mashpee Childcare Center
      • Barnstable — $880,000: Cape Cod Gateway Airport aircraft rescue/firefighting vehicle
      • Orleans — $434,395: Outdoor Therapeutics for the Disabled
      • Provincetown — $256,500: Provincetown Municipal Airport obstruction-removal environmental review
      • Barnstable — $252,000: Town of Barnstable Road Safety Audits
      • Yarmouth — $4,666,515: Upper Bass River Coastal Habitat Restoration Project, restoring 57 acres of coastal wetland. NOAA and Massachusetts sources confirm the award. 
      • Bourne — $338,134: Puritan Bog Coastal Wetland Restoration planning, engineering and design. 

      2023

      • Wellfleet — $14,700,000: Herring River Restoration Project — Phase 1
      • Mashpee — $1,629,197: Parsonage/Attaquin House restoration
      • Barnstable — $1,000,000: Cape Cod Community College dental-program expansion
      • Falmouth — $950,000: Secure Underwater Research Facility
      • Chatham — $800,000: Stage Harbor maintenance dredging
      • Provincetown — $400,000: Fine Arts Work Center arts education and cultural programming
      • Barnstable/Hyannis — $292,928: Lead-service-line inventory and replacement plan

      The FY2023 delegation release confirms several of these Cape projects, including the $1 million Cape Cod Community College dental expansion. 

      2022

      • Barnstable — $1,950,000: Cape Cod Community College Aviation Maintenance Technology Career Advancement Project
      • Barnstable — $1,593,500: Bridge Investment Program planning grant
      • Bourne — $1,000,000: Massachusetts Maritime Academy National Maritime Center for Renewable and Responsible Energy
      • Harwich Port — $250,000: Outer Cape Health Services facilities and equipment. This is the important correction from the deeper pass: the enacted federal FY2022 CPF list identifies a $250,000 Keating-requested award, not $2.5 million. 

      2020

      • Provincetown — $1,736,682: Provincetown Municipal Airport taxiway lighting and emergency generator
      • Barnstable — $506,700: Barnstable Municipal/Cape Cod Gateway Airport aircraft rescue/firefighting building
      • Chatham — $347,000: Chatham Municipal Airport environmental study

        Dukes County

        2024

        • Edgartown — $850,000: Safe & Modern Boys & Girls Club Facility

        2023

        • Tisbury — $217,025: Service-line inventory and lead-service-line replacement plan

        Nantucket County

        2024

        • Nantucket — $1,200,000: Nantucket Memorial Airport PFAS treatment-technology testing
        • Nantucket — $256,140: Nantucket Memorial Airport Taxiway G environmental monitoring/shift
        • Nantucket — $141,955: Nantucket Memorial Airport drainage-system structures
        • Nantucket — $69,660: Nantucket Memorial Airport Runway 6/24 rehabilitation design

        2023

        • Nantucket — $460,000: Rural Massachusetts TPO/SS4A Nantucket Safety Action Plan


      Paid for by the Bill Keating Committee