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Why Does WV
Need a Capacity
Development Program?
The 1996 SDWA Amendments require West Virginia to develop a program to ensure
all water systems have adequate technical, managerial and financial capacity to
consistently provide save drinking water to their customers. The program must include
a strategy to identify and address inadequate capacity of existing water systems and
preventing creation of new water systems unless they demonstrate adequate capacity.
Failure to develop and implement an adequate capacity development program will result
in the US Environmental Protection Agency withholding a portion of the federal funding
available for the West Virginia Drinking
Water Treatment Revolving Fund (DWTRF).
The DWTRF is a low interest loan program designed to assist water systems with the improvement and
upgrading of infrastructure (technical capacity) necessary to meet the SDWA requirements.
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