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Funding Resources for Watershed Protection and Restoration | Polluted Runoff: Nonpoint Source (NPS) Pollution | US EPA This is not the current EPA website. To navigate to the current EPA website, please go to www. epa.
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More information » Polluted Runoff: Nonpoint Source (NPS) Pollution Funding Resources for Watershed Protection and Restoration Watershed Approach Overview Capacity-Building Resources Additional Funding Resources Understanding Managing and Applying for EPA Grants : Includes information on how to apply, grant resources, grant programs and more.
The Water Finance Clearing House :A searchable database of financial assistance sources (grants, loans, cost-sharing) available from federal agencies including those to fund a variety of watershed protection projects. Grants. gov : This website provides organizations with the ability to search for competitive grants from all grant-making federal agencies, register to receive grant notices via e-mail, and download grant applications.
Water Infrastructure and Resiliency Finance Center : provides financial expertise to communitites that are financing drinking water, waste water, and/or stormwater infrastructure projects. Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) : The CWSRF program is a federal-state partnership that provides communities a permanent, independent source of low-cost financing for a wide range of water quality infrastructure projects.
Environmental Education Grants Program : This program supports environmental education projects that increase the public awareness about environmental issues and increase people's ability to make informed decisions that impact environmental quality. EPA awards between $2 and $3 million annually. More than 75 percent of these grant recipients receive less than $15,000.
Handbook on Coordinating Funding for Water and Wastewater Infrastructure (2003) (PDF) : Because there are numerous ways to coordinate funding for drinking water and wastewater infrastructure, EPA surveyed six states – Arizona, California, Montana, New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington – to identify the keys to the success of their coordinated funding approaches.
This handbook presents the lessons learned by these six states so that other states may understand the benefits and challenges of coordinating funding efforts.
Clean Water Revolving Fund Activity Update: Ohio's Restoration Sponsor Program Integrates Point Source and Nonpoint Source Projects (PDF) : This article provides a case study of how Ohio EPA has worked to fund both point and nonpoint source projects through a Water Resource Restoration Sponsor Program (WRRSP).
The article reinforces the idea that wastewater treatment plant improvements and water resource restoration projects are complementary efforts.
Additional Funding Resources Chesapeake Bay Funders Network Exit The Funders Network creates opportunities for funding organizations to make a real difference by providing current and objective information on policy issues by: helping organizations focus on the most pressing Chesapeake Bay and watershed problems, and providing networking opportunities to foster collaboration on shared interests and activities.
Environmental Finance Center at University of North Carolina Exit works to enhance the ability of governments and other organizations to provide environmental programs and services in fair, effective and financially sustainable ways. They developed a Rates Analysis Model an easy-to-use, simplified cash flow model.
It allows utilities or local governments to input current water consumption rates, number of accounts, growth rate, average consumption, and expenses in order to compute net profit/losses for multiple years. Contact Us to ask a question, provide feedback, or report a problem.
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EPA's Innovative Water Infrastructure Workforce Development competition closes October 5, 2026. The agency says up to 15 awards across four project areas, but Project Area 1 alone carries a $7.8 million ceiling against a $10.8 million pot. That tension is the single most important strategic fact in the NOFO — here is how to read it, which lane is least competed, and what a three-week runway means for your submission.
Read articleEPA announced $3.5 million in competitive Clean Water Act Section 319 funding for Tribes on September 10, 2026, with a $175,000 per-applicant cap and roughly 20 awards. Applications close November 9, 2026. But eligibility was frozen as of October 10, 2025, and every application must contain an on-the-ground BMP project traceable to an approved management program. Here is how the gates actually work.
Read articleThe FY2026 Innovative Water Infrastructure Workforce Development Grant (EPA-OW-OWM-26-03) closes October 5, 2026 with $10.8 million, up to 15 cooperative agreements, and a Project Area 1 ceiling of $7.8 million. One maximum award would consume 72 percent of the pool. Here is how the four project areas actually partition the money, why the grants.gov award floor field is wrong, and why September 14 is the date that matters more than October 5.
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