Whole State Resources - The Iowa Current

Clean Water & Resilient Infrastructure Grants

Grant specifics regarding available clean & safe drinking water programs and grants in Iowa including info like key dates and funds available.

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Source Water Protection

Through the SWP, Iowa farmers and landowners may receive 75 percent financial assistance rates for key water quality practices located in source water protection priority areas. Click to find out more.

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Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service

Use this data to make more informed decisions about risk to mitigate the dangers posed by floods and droughts.

Ammonia Reduction for Wastewater Lagoons

Small communities with aerated lagoon and facultative-controlled discharge lagoon wastewater treatment systems face increasingly stringent requirements for ammonia, pH, dissolved oxygen, and bacteria with the National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permits.

Water & Wastewater Environmental Regulations

Learn the challenges associated with wastewater treatment and solutions to address them in your municipality.

Public Drinking Water Annual Compliance Report

The mission of Iowa DNR's Public Drinking Water Program is to protect and enhance the public health, safety and quality of life for all persons by ensuring the public drinking water is safe to drink.

Water Quality Standards

The state's water quality standards help ensure that all Iowans have surface waters that are fishable and swimmable to the fullest extent practicable and water resources that are put to their best beneficial uses.

Public Drinking Water Data

Drinking water protection programs at the state and national levels play a critical role in ensuring high-quality drinking water and in protecting the public's health. This data contains information about the levels of several contaminants that can be found in drinking water.

Private Well Testing

If you drink water out of a private water supply, you should test your water source at least once each year and anytime the well is serviced or the water changes in look, smell or taste. Iowa DNR's private well testing helps ensure the safety and quality of your private water supply.

Private Well Tracking

The Water Supply Section of the Environmental Protection Division of the Department of Natural Resources oversees the regulation of the construction and renovation of private wells and the plugging of abandoned wells by Certified Water Well Contractors in the State of Iowa.

Private Well Program

Iowa's Grants-to-Counties (GTC) Water Well Program provides free water testing to private well owners. The Iowa DNR recommends that all private well owners have their water tested at least annually. To get your private well tested, please contact your local county health department.

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Stormwater Best Management Practices Loan Program

The Stormwater Best Management Practices Loan Program offers low interest loans for projects to control stormwater runoff. The loans offer incentives for installing infiltration-based stormwater quality practices.

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Water & Waste Disposal Loan & Grant Program

This program provides funding for clean and reliable drinking water systems, sanitary sewage disposal, sanitary solid waste disposal and storm water drainage to households and businesses in eligible rural areas.

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Nonpoint Source Water Quality Programs

Water quality programs from the State Revolving Fund to support landowners and communities.

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Drinking Water Loan Program

The Iowa Drinking Water State Revolving Fund provides low-interest loans and financial assistance to public water systems for the design and construction of a variety of projects to ensure public health protection the provision of safe drinking water.

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Clean Water Loan Program

The Iowa Clean Water State Revolving Fund provides low-interest loans and financial assistance to eligible entities for the planning, design and construction of a variety of water quality improvement projects.

Drinking Water Grants

EPA provides a range of financial resources, including grants, made available to support public water systems with enhancing the quality of drinking water and improving public health. The Office of Water has a variety of funding programs available to public water systems.

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Water Resources Funding Guide for Communities

A compilation of available funding resources and considerations for public agencies and communities looking to maintain or rehabilitate water and wastewater systems, while also considering conservation.

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Watershed Improvement Funding Sources

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has compiled funding resources for watershed improvement across the state.

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Planning & Design Loans – State Revolving Fund

The State Revolving Fund provides Iowa communities with low-cost funds to invest in infrastructure that delivers safe drinking water and keeps waterways clean. Funding details and applications can be found here.

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State Funding

State funding opportunities for water, storm sewers and other infrastructure.

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