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Virginia Gets $2.3 Million EPA Grant for Safe Drinking Water

Release Date: 3/8/2000
Contact Information: Roy Seneca (215) 814-5567

PHILADELPHIA -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $2.3 million to Virginia to protect and improve drinking water supplies. Virginia will contribute a $767,741 matching share. The EPA funds are awarded annually to states that assume the primary enforcement authority to help ensure the nation’s drinking waters remain safe.

This grant goes to the state public water system supervision program to:

•Help implement new drinking water regulations that promote the consumers’ right-to-know about the quality of their drinking water;
•Increase protection against microbial and other contaminants;
•Upgrade computer data bases to maintain the water quality monitoring and enforcement data;
•Provide technical assistance to small, financially challenged public water systems.