General resources for water quality grants & loans

The following resources apply to all Water Quality grant and/or loan funded projects. Some additional resources, depending on your project type and funding type, are also available at these two links:

• Nonpoint Project Resources  (Centennial/Section 319/Stormwater Financial Assistance)
• Facility Project Resources  (CWSRF/Centennial/Stormwater Financial Assistance grant) 

Training opportunities and materials

Environmental review

Learn about meeting environmental review requirements associated with a water quality grant or loan. Applicants should consult the funding guidelines to determine which environmental review requirements apply to their project.

• Environmental review page

Guidance

• State Fiscal Year 2018 funding program guidelines
• State Fiscal Year 2017 funding program guidelines
• State Fiscal Year 2016 funding program guidelines
• State Fiscal Year 2015 funding program guidelines
• State Fiscal Year 2014 funding program guidelines

• Water Quality document management guidance

• Quality Assurance Project Plans (QAPPs) development tool page
• Guidelines for preparing QAPPs for environmental studies

Forms

• Forms for submitting payment requests and progress reports (Backup Documentation)
• Closeout report template
  • Activities Projects - Final report template (updated May 25, 2011)
  • Facilities Projects - Final report template (updated May 25, 2011)
• Stormwater projects agreement materials
  • Stormwater Construction Completion Form
  • Design Deliverable for Stormwater Projects
  • Design Deliverables Checklist
  • Stormwater Grant Program Bid Specification Clause
  • Stormwater Grant Program Bid Insert

Committees and workgroups

• Infrastructure Assistance Coordinating Council (IACC)
• Financial Assistance Council (FAC)
  • Financial Assistance Council members
  • Member roles and responsibilities

Other funding opportunities

• Other state funding
  • Drinking Water State Revolving Fund
  • Public Works Trust Fund
  • Washington State Department of Commerce - Community Development Block Grant (CDBG)
  • Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO)
• Other Federal funding
  • U.S. Department of Agriculture: Rural Development - Programs and Opportunities

Reports and surveys

• 2016 Residential Sewer Rate Survey
• Wastewater Regionalization
  • Final report
• Small Community Case Studies - final report
• 2013-2015 Biennium Outcomes Report
• Clean Watersheds Needs Survey (CWNS) Program
• • Program overview for CWNS 2012
  • Small Community Survey Form for CWNS 2012 (populations less than 10,000)
  • On-Site Sewage Systems survey instructions and forms