Source Water Protection Grants
Forecasted
Source Water Protection Grants support Idaho public water systems and community organizations with research, restoration, education, and security projects to reduce risks to public drinking water sources.
Funder: Idaho Department of Environmental Quality
Due Dates (Anticipated): June 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Up to $24,000 per project and per applicant per cycle; completion within one year
Summary: Supports Idaho projects that reduce contamination risks and provide long-term protection for public drinking water sources.
Key Information: Projects must protect source water, not fund water-system operation, maintenance, treatment, or infrastructure upgrades.
Description
The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) administers Source Water Protection Grants to protect the aquifers, surface waters, and watercourses supplying public drinking water systems. Projects must reduce contamination risks, improve protection of one or more public water supply sources, and provide long-term source-water benefits. Work may protect a specific community supply or address an aquifer or watershed serving multiple systems.
Eligible activities include contaminant-source research, closure of unused public wells, hazardous-waste collection, pollution prevention, runoff management, ecological restoration, education, and source-area security. Security projects can protect wells, springs, and intakes through fencing, gates, alarms, cameras, locks, or lighting. Non-public-water-system projects may promote source-water quality, quantity, security, or awareness and should strengthen cooperation among citizens, governments, businesses, and landowners.
