The Washington State Department of Ecology’s (Ecology) Water Quality Combined Funding Program awards grants and loans on a competitive basis for high priority water quality projects throughout Washington State. The program has several opportunities that vary by funding source, funding category, and type of project. Projects include wastewater, stormwater, nonpoint source activities, and on-site sewage systems. 

The combined funding program uses an annual single-application process to award funding from multiple sources all at once, through a competitive ranking process. Projects are scored and ranked based on how much they will benefit water quality and how ready the project is to go to the next step. Ecology creates funding packages to meet applicant’s needs with the best available funding from several different grants and loans.