Water quality grants and loans

Draft Offer List and Intended Use Plan
State Fiscal Year 2026 Draft Offer List and Intended Use Plan is now available.
Give your feedback during the public review and comment period from 12 a.m. on Feb. 5, 2025 until 11:59 p.m. on March 3, 2025. We will present the draft list and discuss the project evaluation and funding cycle process at a public information meeting on Feb. 13, 2025 at 1 p.m.
We provide millions of dollars of funding to improve, protect, and restore water quality across the state. We have several opportunities that vary by funding source, funding category, and type of project. The largest opportunity is our Water Quality Combined Fund where we provide a single application process to fund a variety of projects.
This page provides more information about our funding and resources for those who have received funding (recipients).
If you are looking for more information about how to apply for funds (applicants), you can find eligibility criteria, instructions and guidance, and timelines on the funding opportunity pages:
- Water quality combined funding program
- Stormwater capacity grants program (next application anticipated Summer 2025)
- Aquatic invasive plants management grants
- Freshwater algae control grant program (next application anticipated late Fall 2025)
- Puget Sound National Estuary Program stormwater strategic initiative grants
- Puget Sound nutrient reduction grants program
- Emergency Funding
- Emergency loan funding may be available for public wastewater facilities serving a population of 10,000 or fewer people for water quality projects where a local emergency has been declared. Information is available in the CWSRF Emergency Funding Program Guidelines or by contacting Karen Izumoto.
Water Quality Combined Funding Program
Our Water Quality Combined Funding is an integrated funding program for projects that improve and protect water quality throughout the state. Projects include: wastewater, stormwater, nonpoint source activities, and on-site sewage systems. We use an annual single-application process to award funding from multiple sources all at once, through a competitive ranking process. Projects are scored and ranked based on how much they will benefit water quality and how ready the project is to go to the next step. We create funding packages to meet applicant’s needs with the best available funding from several different grants and loans.
Visit our applicant page to view our applicant workshops that explain how to apply.
Types of funding that make up the combined fund
- Clean Water Section 319 Grants
- Centennial Clean Water Program Grants
- Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF)
- Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), including Emerging Contaminants
- Sewer Overflow and Stormwater Reuse Municipal Grants (OSG)
- Stormwater Financial Assistance Program grants (SFAP)
- Stormwater Community-Based Public-Private Partnerships (CBP3)
- Stormwater Grants of Statewide Significance (GROSS)
View our interactive map to find which projects have been funded in your community.
Latest funding cycle
The annual application cycle for State Fiscal Year 2026 was Aug. 13, 2024 to Oct. 15, 2024. During this application cycle, 155 applications were screened with $565 million requested in eligible funding. After review, we plan to award $175.5 million for 102 high-priority clean water projects.
- State Fiscal Year 2026 Draft Water Quality Funding Offer List and Intended Use Plan
- Interactive Map
- Searchable spreadsheet of draft list
We want to hear from you
We are holding a public comment period on the draft offer list from 12 a.m. on Feb. 5, 2025, until 11:59 p.m. on March 7, 2025. Please submit comments on our online comment form.
Or you can attend the online informational meeting at 1 p.m. on Feb. 13, 2025, via Zoom.
We will respond to all comments received during the comment period and notify all commenters when we publish our final funding list by July 1, 2025.
Find previous final offer lists below.
Sign up for our email list to get notified about funding guidelines, applicant and recipient workshops, and other general grant and loan information.
Additional resource pages
How has the money been used?
Every two years we produce an Outcomes Report, summarizing funding and highlights for completed projects.
- 2021-2023 Biennium Outcomes Report StoryMap and accompanying blog post one and two.
- 2019-2021 Biennium Outcomes Report StoryMap
- 2017-2019 Biennium Outcomes Report and StoryMap
- 2015-2017 Biennium Outcomes Report
Other resources
Related links
Contact information
Karen Izumoto
Water Quality Combined Funding Planner
karen.izumoto@ecy.wa.gov
360-628-1976
Kim Wagar
Water Quality Financial Management Section Manager
kimberly.wagar@ecy.wa.gov
360-878-4915
- Sign up for our email list to get notified about funding guidelines, applicant and recipient workshops, and other general grant and loan information.