Stormwater Fees: Overview of Municipal Stormwater Fee Programs | PEC, 2019
This resource provides an overview of what stormwater is and its importance and delves into different ways you can organize a stormwater authority or fee within your municipality.
Guidance for Municipal Stormwater Funding | US EPA, 2006
This resource provides a series of high-level considerations including sources of funding and funding strategies, legal considerations, implementing user-fee based funding, and case studies.
Federal and State Funding Programs- Stormwater and Green Infrastructure Projects | US EPA, 2017
This resource provides an extensive list of and direct links to funding programs to support stormwater infrastructure projects. Grant funding sources include U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and Department of Homeland Security – Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA).
Urban Water Funders | The Funders Network
This resource serves as a matching grant program that enhances local capacity to build equitable and sustainable communities in the United States.
The fund incentivizes local government water department/utilities and foundation partnerships by paring national and local philanthropic funding sources.
These one-to-one matching awards support the planning and implementing of green stormwater infrastructure (GSI).
The grant program provides partnership investments between $25,000 and $75,000 for one-year projects, or between $50,000 and $100,000 for two-year projects, with a 1:1 match required by one or more local foundations.
Tap into Resilience Toolkit | WaterNow Alliance
WaterNow Alliance’s Tap into Resilience Toolkit is an online, interactive resource with answers to water managers’ financing, tax, accounting, and legal questions that arise when scaling investment in decentralized stormwater management solutions. The Toolkit includes modules on financing and implementing, explanatory videos, a filterable resource library, and a portal to receive pro-bono support.
Potential Funding Sources, New Jersey Stormwater Utility Resource Center | New Jersey Futures, 2020
This financial resource describes that the most common method of funding the planning and investigatory work to create a stormwater utility is to front the cost from the local budget and reimburse it after the utility is operational. See more information on “fee basics” here.
This financial resource also provides direct links to various grant opportunities.
