Groundwater Quality Funding
Groundwater Quality Funding supports communities and cleanup project proponents with contamination investigation, treatment, and remediation to protect human health, the environment, and drinking-water sources.
Funder: California State Water Resources Control Board
Due Dates: Rolling (SCAP; no deadline) | No longer accepting applications (Propositions 1 and 68)
Funding Amounts: SCAP: $40 million in annual appropriations; no funding request limit or required cost match
Summary: Supports contamination investigation, cleanup, treatment, and remediation to protect human health, the environment, and drinking water sources.
Key Information: SCAP requires that the responsible party lack financial resources.
Description
The California State Water Resources Control Board administers three Groundwater Quality Funding programs. The Site Cleanup Subaccount Program (SCAP), established in 2014 under Senate Bill 445, funds reasonable and necessary costs to investigate contamination sources and remediate harm or threatened harm from existing or threatened human-made surface water or groundwater contamination. Supported work includes site characterization, source identification, and cleanup implementation.
The Proposition 1 Groundwater Grant Program supports planning and implementation to prevent or clean up contamination of groundwater that serves or has served as drinking water. Proposition 68 supports treatment and remediation to prevent or reduce contamination of drinking-water groundwater, primarily through operation and maintenance of existing facilities. Both proposition-funded programs have committed all available funding and no longer accept applications.
