Water System Sustainability Grant Program - Strategic planning grants

The Water System Sustainability Grant Program provides funding to assist community water systems in developing sustainable operations and improving their technical, managerial, and financial capacities. The Strategic Planning Grant specifically supports the creation of engineering and hydrogeological reports, helping decision-makers implement necessary infrastructure improvements. Eligible projects include alternative analysis studies, pilot studies, and source exploration investigations. This initiative aims to secure necessary funding through informed outreach and detailed planning.

The Water System Sustainability Grant Program offers grants intended to assist community water systems (CWS) with developing programs that will ensure sustainable operations and identify potential improvements in technical, managerial and/or financial operations, also known as capacity development.
The goal of the Strategic Planning Grant is to support water systems in developing preliminary engineering and/or hydrogeological reports to provide decision-makers with the best available data to implement drinking water infrastructure improvements. Deliverables from Strategic Planning Grants are also intended to support water systems’ applications for funding and outreach to voters in order to secure the necessary funding. The following are examples of projects that would be eligible to receive funding. This is not an all-inclusive list and other types of projects promoting planning efforts may be considered and recommended for funding after review:
Alternative analysis studies.Pilot studies.Preliminary engineering evaluations.Source exploration / hydrogeological investigation reports for locating new water supplies.Other professionally prepared documents that can be used to enhance system technical capacity, as determined by DWGB.