Grant Eligible Activities

Examples of grant eligible roles and duties include:

• Formation of a local SWP team, a collection of not less than three persons whose purpose is to facilitate the development, implementation, and maintenance of a SWP. The team must include the Public Water Supply (PWS) Superintendent and a representative from the municipality served by the PWS. The team meets quarterly during the contract period as a minimum and reports quarterly to the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE).
• Development and implementation of management strategies on a local level.

Examples of grant eligible delineation activities include:

• Compiling existing hydrogeologic information.
• Installing observation wells for an aquifer test on an existing public water supply well.
• Surveying.
• Collecting static water levels.
• Performing groundwater modeling, including particle tracking.

If deemed necessary by EGLE due to the lack of accessibility to existing wells, the area geology indicates a PWS may be low tritium public water supply, or a known groundwater contamination is present within the SWPA, the following activities may be grant eligible:

• The installation of monitoring wells for the collection of static water level information.
• The collection and analysis of tritium samples.
• The installation of sentinel wells to monitor water quality within the SWPA.

Examples of grant eligible contaminant source inventory activities include:

• Record searches to identify potential sources of contamination and land uses that have a potential to impact the groundwater.
• Conducting general surveys to identify potential sources of contamination and land uses that have a potential to impact the groundwater.
• Conducting on-site inspection of facilities that have a potential to impact the groundwater.
• Record searches to identify historical land uses that have a potential to impact the groundwater.
• Map existing and potential sources of contamination within the SWPA.
• Updating the contaminant source inventory.
• Developing and implementing a program to locate and identify abandoned wells.

Examples of grant eligible management strategy activities include:

• Developing and implementing management strategies within the SWPA.
• The development and implementation of best management practices that reduce the risk of groundwater contamination.
• The development and implementation of SWP resolutions or ordinances.
• On-site inspections for the purpose of improving facility management of potential sources of contamination.
• The development and management of a program to control abandoned wells, excluding the actual sealing of abandoned wells.
• Incorporation of a SWP program into a municipality's master plan or other regional land use planning program.
• Waste reduction strategies targeted for source water protection areas.
• The development and implementation of partnership agreements between municipalities for the purpose of source water protection.

Examples of grant eligible contingency plan and emergency response protocol activities include:

• The development and implementation of a contingency plan and emergency response protocol for a SWPA or within a one-mile radius of the well field for a low tritium public water supply are grant eligible activities.

Examples of grant eligible new source activities include:

• Completing of a delineation for a new well or well field, exclusive of the cost incurred to conduct an aquifer test that is a requirement of the PWS program for the construction of new wells.
• The development and implementation of a SWP program for a new well or well field.
• Incorporation of a new well or well field into an existing SWP program.

Examples of grant eligible public participation activities include:

• Development and implementation of a school curriculum related to SWP.
• Development and implementation of a strategy to educate the general public on issues related to SWP.
• Development, production, and circulation of educational materials.
• Development, preparation, and production of media announcements, such as news releases, newspaper articles, and radio announcements.
• Signing activities which identify an approved SWPA or which promote the concept of SWP, such as storm drain stenciling, construction and placement of road signs.
• Advertisement for a hazardous waste collection (the actual collection of hazardous waste is not grant eligible).

Examples of non-grant eligible roles and duties include:

• Food for meetings.
• Mileage/travel expenses.
• Employees' wages, unless the employee's specific duties, as outlined in their job description, include the Source Water Protection (SWP) and have been pre-approved by EGLE.

Examples of non-grant eligible delineation activities and new sources include:

• Aquifer tests for new wells, as required by the Safe Drinking Water Act or aquifer test policy.

Examples of non-grant eligible management strategies include:

• Purchasing land or real estate.
• Sealing abandoned wells.
• Activities required by other federal or state statutes.
• Water quality monitoring, except Tritium testing.

Examples of non-grant eligible public participation activities include:

• Household hazardous waste collection and other community-wide general groundwater protection activities.
• Equipment purchases, except for the Groundwater Flow model and other teaching models for SWP.

Examples of non-grant eligible contingency plan and emergency response protocol activities include:

• Emergency water connections, even if they are part of the contingency plan, because it is a capital improvement on the water system.
• Training.