Water Quality Monitoring Grant Program
Water Quality Monitoring Grant Program supports those collecting water-quality data through new and ongoing monitoring projects to increase external data used in MassDEP’s water-quality assessments.
Funder: Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
Due Dates: October 29, 2026, by 5:00 p.m. (FY2027 application deadline)
Funding Amounts: See the FY2027 Request for Responses for funding details.
Summary: Supports ongoing and new water-quality monitoring and data collection to increase external data used in MassDEP’s water-quality assessments.
Description
The Water Quality Monitoring Grant Program supports ongoing and new monitoring and data-collection projects. Offered by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP), its central goal is to increase the amount of external data the department uses in water-quality assessments. The program’s focus is on monitoring efforts that contribute information to that assessment work, whether those efforts are already underway or newly established.
The program is administered by the Data Management and Water Quality Assessment Section within MassDEP’s Watershed Planning Program. It is part of the department’s broader watershed and water-quality grant offerings, which address nonpoint source pollution, management planning, and stormwater. Within that broader portfolio, this grant specifically emphasizes monitoring and collecting water-quality data.
