Oregon communities pursue sustainable solutions to restore and protect water quality. Oregon's Clean Water State Revolving Fund provides communities a set-aside reserve for funding green projects.
Managing for sustainability tools
Best practices for operating and managing a wastewater treatment facility can conserve energy and water, save money and attain permit requirements.
Green Project eligibility guidelines
Eligible green projects:
- Incorporate green practices
- Reduce the environmental footprint of wastewater treatment, collection and distribution
- Address climate change
- Conserve water and energy
- Implement more sustainable solutions to wet weather flows
- Advance innovative approaches to water management
Green project eligibility guidance will be used in determining a project's eligibility for scoring a CWSRF application. Wastewater utilities can take savings derived from reducing water losses and energy consumption and use them for public health and environmental enhancement projects.
Green infrastructure information
On a regional scale, green infrastructure preserves and restores forests, floodplains and wetlands by reducing impervious surfaces in the watershed. Locally, green infrastructure includes site-specific and neighborhood-specific practices such as bioretention, trees, green roofs, permeable pavements and cisterns.
Energy efficiency tools
Improved technologies and practices at Oregon wastewater treatment facilities reduce energy consumption, use energy more efficiently and sometimes produce renewable energy that can be used to power the facility.
Water efficiency tools
Below are some resources for improving water conservation and efficiency.