This marks the fifth year of competitive funding to forward-looking drought resiliency projects through the Consumptive Use Mitigation Grant Program.
Awardees will use the funding to reduce water use or enhance supply, therefore helping to protect public health and safety, avoid water use conflicts, prevent water quality impacts, support economic production and sustain ecological flows.
Together these projects are estimated to deliver nearly 1.5 billion gallons of water savings a year; that’s more than triple the amount estimated by awarded projects in 2025.
This year’s awardees include municipalities, golf courses, state government, industry and non-profits.
Click Here for a list of grants awarded.
"These awards reflect the power of collaboration in advancing meaningful water solutions across the basin," said Andrew Dehoff, SRBC Executive Director. "By investing in projects like these, we’re helping communities better prepare for dry conditions while building a more adaptable and sustainable water future."
Building on past awardee success, golf course projects include irrigation system upgrades and turf to meadow conversions, while municipal projects focus on leak detection and improved metering.
Innovative project types include two dam improvements that will increase control of the water supplies, an aeration technique at a reservoir that will increase the usability of water storage, and a regenerative stormwater project that aims to increase recharge by reconnecting the stream channel to the floodplain.
Collectively the awardees are bringing more than $9 million in matching dollars to the table, underscoring tremendous partnerships and the strength of leveraging Commission funds for the common goal of an enhanced river basin.
Consumptive use refers to water that is used but not returned to rivers and streams because it is evaporated, transpired, incorporated into products or otherwise lost.
The grants are funded by fees paid by regulated projects as mitigation for their consumptive water use.
More than half of the awarded projects are in a SRBC consumptive use priority area, which are watersheds targeted for the development of additional water conservation, mitigation or reuse measures due to significant water use and/or limited water availability.
Click Here for the SRBC announcement.
Visit SRBC's Consumptive Use Mitigation Grant Program webpage to learn more about this program.
For more information on programs, training opportunities and upcoming events, visit the Susquehanna River Basin Commission website. Click Here to sign up for SRBC’s newsletter. Follow SRBC on Twitter, visit them on YouTube.
[Posted: May 6, 2026] PA Environment Digest
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