General resources for water quality grants & loans

We offer helpful resources if you are seeking support for — or information about — water quality projects funded by us.

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:

Training opportunities and materials

Water Quality Grant and Loan Administration Recipient Training 2022

We held our Annual Recipient Training for recipients of funding from the WQ Combined Funding Program, with active agreements from State Fiscal Years (SFY) 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 as well as those who applied for SFY 2023 funding. Due to COVID-19, the annual recipient training was held entirely online.

Webinar sessions were offered from June 27 – 30, 2022.

Recipient training presentations

Other materials

Applicant training workshops for the Water Quality Combined Funding Program 2024 cycle:

We held workshops via webinar from Aug. 23 to 25, 2022, to help you learn more about requirements and tips for applying for our Water Quality Combined funding program's grants and loans. Please refer to the presentations and materials below for information presented during the training.

The application period for the State Fiscal Year 2024 funding cycle opportunity is: Aug. 9, 2022 and closes Oct.12, 2022.

For more information about this funding opportunity, please see our Funding Cycles page.

Applicant workshop presentations

Other useful 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 materials

This section includes Water Quality Combined funding program guidelines for each of the currently active funding cycles, project file management guidance, and Quality Assurance process planning guidance.

Water Quality Combined Funding Program guidelines

Maintaining recipient files

Water Quality document management guidance

Quality Assurance process planning

Forms

This section contains forms used for submitting payment requests and progress reports, closeout reports, and agreement materials for Stormwater projects:

Stormwater projects' agreement materials

Committees and workgroups

Other funding opportunities

This section provides a list of other opportunities for seeking funding.

Reports and surveys

This section has various informational reports and previous surveys completed and published:

Wastewater regionalization

Final report

Outcomes reports

Small Community Reports Surveys

Clean Watersheds Needs Survey (CWNS) program

Contact information

Shelly McMurry
Training Opportunities and Materials
shelly.mcmurry@ecy.wa.gov
564-999-1649

Eliza Keeley-Arnold
Training Opportunities and Materials
eliza.keeley-arnold@ecy.wa.gov
360-628-1976

Liz Ellis
Environmental Review Coordinator
liz.ellis@ecy.wa.gov
360-628-4410

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