Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF)

Our mission is to help public water systems become more sustainable by improving their technical, managerial, and financial capabilities.  

1. Change Order Overview
2. FED Procedures and Guidelines
3. Change Order Forms and Publications

Change Order Overview

Construction Section

Tools for Sustainability Planning

• EPA Energy Use Assessment Tool for WWTP and WTP
• ​Greening CSO Plans:  Planning & Modeling
• Moving Toward Sustainability:
  • Effective & Sustainable Practices Fact Sheet

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Each year the CWSRF and DWSRF publish an Intended Use Plan (IUP), which is a planning report that explains how the SRF funding "cap grant" provided by the Federal government will be used to support the programs. Each IUP involves a public hearing and comment period, a priority list, and an explanation about how money will be used to meet funding requirements. Each IUP can be amended by request in January.

Each IUP makes program decisions to meet requirements set by Congress in each year's cap grant.  Those program decisions are discussed briefly below:

The Vermont-only Drinking Water Revolving Loan Fund was established to provide loans to a municipality for the design, land acquisition, if necessary, and construction of a potable water supply when a household in the municipality has been disconnected involuntarily from a public water supply system for reasons other than nonpayment of fee.  The loan is to the municipality, not individual home owners.  Standard loan term is 20 year/3%.  The rate and term may be adjusted in accordance with program guidance documents.  

The DWSRF Planning loan program provides 0% interest loans to public water systems seeking to conduct preliminary and final design engineering. This preliminary engineering can run the gamut from source exploration to feasibility studies for water system acquisition to preliminary and final design of a construction project. One of the most attractive aspects of the planning loan program is the loans accrue no interest and require no payments on the loan until the project goes to construction; if construction does not occur, payment of the loan occurs over a five year period.