CA State Water Boards: Proposition 1 Groundwater Grant Program

Deadline: Summer 2021 (Implementation Projects should open July 2021)

Amount: Minimum grant amount of $100,000 and a maximum grant amount of $2 million for planning projects. Minimum grant amount of $500,000 and a maximum grant amount of $50 million for implementation projects.

Match: Yes – 50%

Eligibility: public agencies, non-profit organizations, public utilities, federally recognized Indian tribes, California Native American Tribes, and mutual water companies

https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/grants_loans/proposition1/groundwater_sustainability.html

Grants to prevent and cleanup contamination of groundwater that serves (or has served) as a source of drinking water. Groundwater funding is limited to projects that cleanup or prevent migration of contamination in the aquifer (essentially remediation projects, not just straight treating contaminated ground water for provision of drinking water