WPCLF low interest loans to address wastewater infrastructure challenges that include the following types of projects: 

• Publicly-owned wastewater treatment plant and sanitary sewer system construction,
• combined sewer overflow controls, 
• sewer system rehabilitation and correction of infiltration/inflow;
• Publicly-owned septage receiving facilities, septic system improvements, 
• Stormwater,
• stream corridor restoration,
• agricultural runoff controls, 
• source water/wellhead protection,
• green infrastructure, 
• and other non-point source pollution control projects as allowed under the Clean Water Act.

Qualifying point source projects (including planning, design, and construction loans) that will be owned by public entities. 

Integrated Priority System (IPS) rates a project by considering its protectiveness of public health, the potential uses of the water resources benefiting from the project, the restorability of the water resources to their potential uses or the protection of existing uses, and the effectiveness of the project in addressing identified sources of impairment or threat.

FY25: All planning and design loans with terms of five years or less will receive a 0% interest rate.  

Currently hardship rates are available for communities with population less than 10,000 and below the state median household income benchmark.

WPCLF funding is available for the capital costs of activities listed above as long as those grey or green “infrastructure” projects protect or improve water quality.

If approved, Ohio EPA will issue a PTI for your project that is valid for 18 months.

Typically the application deadline falls in August

The first step is to submit a project nomination.

Division of Environmental and Financial Assistance 

614.644.2798

defamail@epa.ohio.gov