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MassDEP outlines rolling ECSDC grant and new engineering-design program for small water systems
Summary
Abby Jacobs of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection described two grant opportunities — the ECSDC program and a new Engineering and Design Plans Grant — both open with rolling admissions and targeted to small or disadvantaged community water systems addressing emerging contaminants including PFAS and manganese.
Abby Jacobs, grants manager for the Emerging Contaminants in Small or Disadvantaged Communities (ECSDC) program at the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, described available grant funding and eligibility during an RCAP Solutions webinar on Sept. 16.
Jacobs said the ECSDC grant funds planning, design and construction of long-term solutions for emerging contaminants, naming PFAS and manganese as examples. She said eligible entities include community public water systems (publicly or privately owned), nonprofit transient and nontransient noncommunity systems and systems located in a Clean Water Trust disadvantaged community or serving populations under 10,000. Small systems that are not in a designated disadvantaged community must demonstrate…
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