From: Jennifer Cline
Sent: Tue Mar 29 15:57:04 2016
To: Ryan Hepler
Subject: FW: Drinking Water Grants Available
Importance: Normal
Did you hear anything back from Canby Utility? Were they going to resubmit the grant application again?
Jennifer Cline, P.E. | Public Works Director
Licensed in OR, WA
117 N Molalla Ave. | PO Box 248 * |Molalla, OR 97038
O: 503.759.0218 | F: 503.829.3676
From: WILLIAMS Karen [mailto:WILLIAMS.Karen@deq.state.or.us]
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2016 3:28 PM
To: Dave Stone <estwwtp@cityofestacada.org>; Melanie Wagner <wagner@cityofestacada.org>; mwalker@cityofsandy.com; Thomas Fisher <tfisher@ci.sandy.or.us>; david.schaffer@troutdaleoregon.gov; Amy Pepper <amy.pepper@troutdaleoregon.gov>; Jennifer Cline <jcline@cityofmolalla.com>; rhepler@cityofmolalla.com; Mark Gunter <gunterm@ci.canby.or.us>; dean.harvey@veolia.com; clerk.corbettwater@rconnects.com; Kim Swan <kims@clackamasproviders.org>; Lisa Kilders <lkilders@conservationdistrict.org>; Julie DiLeone <julied@emswcd.org>; riverwatch@molalla.net; Cheryl McGinnis at Clackamas River Basin Council <cheryl@clackamasriver.org>; Steve Wise <swise@sandyriver.org>
Subject: Drinking Water Grants Available
Sandy, Molalla, and Clackamas Basin Partners:
I wanted to write to encourage you to investigate the following grant opportunity.
Information regarding the 2015 Drinking Water Source Protection Grants and Loans is now available on the Oregon Health Authority Drinking Water Services website. OHA will be accepting Letters of Interest for drinking water source protection projects through Friday May 6, 2016. Public Water Systems can apply for up to $30,000 in grants (per system per year) to implement protection activities in their source area.
This can be a good opportunity for watershed partners (SWCDs, Watershed Councils, local governments, etc.) to work with Public Water Systems on projects that are mutually beneficial. DEQ and OHA are especially seeking applications from smaller groundwater systems this year. The application process is fairly simple and no match is required for grant funds if awarded. Projects are rated on the potential to reduce risk in the delineated source areas or to reduce contaminant concentrations at the drinking water source.
For more information see http://public.health.oregon.gov/HealthyEnvironments/DrinkingWater/SRF/Pages/spf.aspx. Information on eligible projects and the rating criteria are found in the document titled: DWSPF - General Information on Funding (pdf) which is towards the bottom of the page. Maps of drinking water source areas can be found on the DWP website at http://www.deq.state.or.us/wq/dwp/results.htm.
The DEQ contact should you have questions about this grant program, technical assistance, or for assistance with an application is Julie Harvey at (503) 229-5664 and harvey.julie@deq.state.or.us. Feel free to ask me questions, as well, about more general surface water and groundwater quality issues in your basins.
Karen
Karen Font Williams
Basin Coordinator
DEQ Northwest Region
700 NE Multnomah St., Ste. 600 | Portland, OR 97232
(503) 229 - 6254 | fax (503) 229 - 6957