The Community Water Enrichment Fund (CWEF) provides funding for the purpose of rehabilitation, improvement, and construction projects for community water systems to provide safe and clean drinking water.
Ineligible costs include improvements to private property, on-going salaries, overtime for government employees, administration, engineering-only or planning-only projects. Further, fire hydrant-only projects are also ineligible. Fire hydrants must be included within a water line rehabilitation or extension project. Generators, hand/power tools, water line locators, heavy-duty equipment used for digging, chemicals, and incidental supplies are not eligible.
All municipalities and parishes within the state of Louisiana that are identified by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as non-entitlement communities are eligible to apply for assistance.
Applications are expected to be due in early June 2023.
Individual award sizes are determined by population:
Cost sharing/matching is accepted, but not required.
For the 2022-2023 fiscal year, the maximum allocation amount available within each parish area (excluding the parish itself) will be $100,000 The Office of Community Development encourages all potential applicants within each parish to prioritize their requests.