Grant Details

The Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) program is a federal-state partnership to help ensure safe drinking water. Created by the 1996 Amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) the program provides financial support to water systems and to state safe water programs. This includes projects to:

• Develop or acquire potable water sources;
• Construct/expand water and wastewater treatment facilities;
• Install or improve water distribution and wastewater collection systems;
• Execute well-head protection planning studies; or
• Improve storm water management facilities.  

In Ohio, applicants will be evaluated based on (1) health related factors; (2) economic affordability; (3) population; (4) median household income; and (5) poverty rate.

The long-term DWAF program goals are to:

• Maximize below-market rate loans and subsidies to eligible public water systems for improvements that eliminate public health threats and ensure compliance with federal and state drinking water laws and regulations.
• Target technical assistance to public water systems serving fewer than 10,000 people.
• Target small and disadvantaged community assistance to reduce the financial impact of capital improvements on customers of small systems and systems serving poorer communities.
• Encourage the regionalization of small public water systems so they may take advantage of economies of scale available to larger water systems.
• Support extensions of public water systems to address areas of contaminated private water systems.
• Promote the continued development of Asset Management Programs for public water system owners and operators to maintain compliance with the state and federal SDWA requirements.
• Update source water assessments and provide technical assistance to promote locally developed source water protection plans.

For the 2024 program year, the short-term DWAF program goals were to:

• The Water Supply Revolving Loan Account (WSRLA)
• The Drinking Water Assistance Fund Administrative Account
• The Small Systems Technical Assistance Account 13
• The Public Water Systems Supervision (PWSS) Account
• The Local Assistance and Other State Programs Account