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Board staff reports funding committed, needs estimate and domestic-well assistance activities
Summary
Division leaders provided figures on funds committed to water projects, noted outstanding needs to bring failing systems into compliance and summarized statewide efforts to test and support domestic wells.
Division staff updated the advisory group on the program’s financial commitments and a preliminary needs estimate for systems still on failing lists.
Kristen Abholder, deputy director in the Division of Financial Assistance, summarized recent spending and the sources supporting SafeFor activities. Staff reported that the program has deployed or committed substantial funding (presentation referenced “more than $920 million” across multiple funding streams) and that the division has targeted dozens of systems for construction funding while providing planning and technical assistance to many more.
Staff said roughly 400 systems remain on the list of systems failing or at risk; 69 of those systems are already receiving state construction funding, and staff estimated an additional multi-hundred‑million-dollar need to bring systems on the failing list into compliance over the next three to four years. The division also described a suite of programs for domestic and small-system wells: education, monitoring and short-term emergency assistance. Staff said those programs have supported thousands of households, and staff continue to refine criteria and maps to help owners and tenants determine whether local programs apply to their wells.
Staff noted that recently enacted and pending state bills affect owners of private wells that serve rental properties and that the agency has posted resources and a spreadsheet of domestic-well programs on its website. The advisory group asked staff to clarify timelines and to post county-level maps of program coverage.
