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SAFER advisory group presses State Water Resources Control Board on shrinking climate fund and how to protect drinking-water projects
Summary
Advisory members at the March 12 SAFER meeting urged staff to plan for declines in greenhouse-gas-linked revenue that fund the Safe and Affordable Drinking Water program, pressing for contingency targets, clearer public project tracking and more accessible metrics before the fund-expenditure plan is finalized.
Advisory members of the State Water Resources Control Board's SAFER advisory group warned March 12 that a planned drop in greenhouse-gas reduction fund allocations could shrink the program's flexible funding pot and complicate plans to close long-running water-quality problems.
Jeff Budzel, speaking for the Division of Financial Assistance, told the group that the annual Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund has typically received about $130 million a year and that legislative negotiations have created uncertainty about future revenue. "The safe and affordable drinking water fund does come from a portion of the greenhouse gas reduction fund and that is anticipated to reduce over the next couple years," he said, noting staff were already reviewing other funding sources and would capture options in the draft fund-expenditure (FE) plan.
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