Idaho to receive $20M in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds for water infrastructure projects

In this file photo, geese perch near the Idaho Falls greenbelt on Nov. 24, 2023. (Kyle Pfannenstiel/Idaho Capital Sun)

Idaho will receive more than $20.8 million to upgrade water infrastructure in the state through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed in 2021.

The funds will flow through the Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Funds, a long-standing federal-state water investment partnership, according to a press release from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Idaho will receive a $12.2 million allotment from the law’s Clean Water General Supplemental funds, more than $1 million from the law’s Emerging Contaminant funds and more than $7.6 million under the law’s Drinking Water Emerging Contaminant fund. The investments will fund state-run, low-interest loan programs that address key challenges in financing water infrastructure, according to the EPA release.

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The funding is part of a five-year, $50 billion investment in water infrastructure through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law – the largest investment in water infrastructure in American history. The law mandates that a majority of the funding Idaho will receive through these funds must be provided to disadvantaged communities in the form of grants or loans that do not have to be repaid.

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