Press Release: White Salmon Receives Public Works Board Grant for Critical Water Infrastructure Improvements

White Salmon Receives Public Works Board Grant for Critical Water Infrastructure Improvements

The City of White Salmon was awarded $1.2M in grant funding from the Washington State Public Works Board for the Mainline Phase IIA Project, which is the next phase of planned improvements to the mainline of the city’s water delivery system. This phase spans from Forester Ln to the top of Bald Mountain Corners on Highway 141 and is anticipated to move into construction in early 2025.

 The city submitted a loan application for the 2023 Washington State Public Works Board funding cycle seeking $8,045,000 in financing for the Mainline Phase IIA Project, which was awarded earlier this fall. The grant award now reduces the anticipated loan amount to $6.8M.

“We’re excited about this additional grant funding as it helps to decrease maintenance costs incurred by our water users for a much-needed project. Completion of the mainline improvements will ensure stable water delivery on our main transmission feed to town going forward, and help to address known water losses currently within the system,” said Public Works Director Andrew Dirks.

Statewide, the Washington State Public Works Board approved over $220 million in funding for local community infrastructure projects at its meeting in September. Awards from the Board’s traditional construction program will support vital public infrastructure across six different systems: streets and roads, bridges, domestic water, stormwater, sanitary sewers, and solid waste, recycling and organics. In this funding cycle, 62 applicants submitted 85 funding requests for $312,224,348 in state infrastructure funding. The Board considered the rated and ranked applications and conditionally awarded loans and grants to 61 construction projects, totaling $221,469,551.