DWSRF Eligibilities
DWSRFs fund a wide range of drinking water infrastructure projects. Six categories of projects are eligible to receive DWSRF assistance. These categories and examples of projects within them are:
- Treatment: Projects to install or upgrade facilities to improve drinking water quality to comply with SDWA regulations
- Transmission and distribution: Rehabilitation, replacement, or installation of pipes to improve water pressure to safe levels or to prevent contamination caused by leaky or broken pipes
- Source: Rehabilitation of wells or development of eligible sources to replace contaminated sources
- Storage: Installation or upgrade of finished water storage tanks to prevent microbiological contamination from entering the distribution system
- Consolidation: Interconnecting two or more water systems
- Creation of new systems: Construct a new system to serve homes with contaminated individual wells or consolidate existing systems into a new regional water system