Hardship Financial Assistance Criteria

Clean Water Fund Program

The Clean Water Fund Program (CWFP) may be able to provide hardship financial assistance for the municipality's project if all of the following apply:

1. The project is a wastewater project for compliance maintenance, unsewered, or new/changed limits.

2. The municipality's median household income (MHI) is 80% or less of the state's median household income.

3. The estimated total annual charges per residential user for wastewater treatment in the municipality would, without hardship assistance, exceed 2% of the municipality's median household income.

   "Residential user" means a structure or part of a structure, including a mobile home, that is used primarily as a home, residence or sleeping place by one person, or two or more persons maintaining a common household, and that uses a publicly owned treatment work. "Residential user" does not include an institutional, commercial, industrial or governmental facility.

(See also Hardship Financial Assistance Calculation)

For more information, contact a CWFP project manager or contact hardship specialist Jeanne Cargill.