River Network State Revolving Fund Advocacy Toolkit

A toolkit explaining how State Revolving Funds actually work and how community organizations can influence where that money goes in their own state.

The Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Funds are the largest pot of water infrastructure money most states control, and the decisions about who gets it, on what terms, and how much principal forgiveness small and disadvantaged communities receive are made in intergovernmental project priority lists and intended use plans that almost nobody outside the agency reads. River Network's toolkit demystifies that process: how the funds are capitalized and allocated, what an intended use plan is and when it is open for comment, how affordability and disadvantaged community criteria are set at the state level, how to read a project priority list, and where an organization can realistically apply pressure. It includes a companion self-paced training series on the fundamentals of SRF administration. For H2O network members in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, this is directly applicable to PENNVEST, the Ohio WPCLF and DWAF, and the WV SRF programs already listed in this library, and it turns those umbrella entries from a funding source into something a community group can help steer.