Project Grant SFJ60017GR0036

This $2,000,000 Cooperative Agreement award, issued by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, will advance the development of a new approach to monitoring drinking water quality at the household level. The project, led by The Washington University in St. Louis, will refine and expand the use of commercially available point-of-use (POU) water filters as both treatment tools and monitoring devices. This novel monitoring...

This $462,000 Project Grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 9 will fund the State of California Water Resources Control Board's efforts to implement bacteriological water quality monitoring and public notification activities under the Beach Monitoring and Notification Program Implementation Grants administered by the EPA. The State Water Resources Board will collect water samples from designated recreational beaches in California to test for bacteriological water quality....

This $150,000 Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will support the development of a new smartphone-enabled water quality monitoring data platform by Syntro TEK Corporation. Funded through the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR), the platform aims to advance NOAA's goal of increasing public engagement in environmental research and monitoring. Under the award, Syntro TEK will develop quantitative water test strips fortified with standards, a...

This $2,495,019 project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will support the development and deployment of a smart, cloud-connected electrochemical sensor network to monitor drinking water quality in several socioeconomically diverse Massachusetts communities. The University of Massachusetts Lowell will work with community stakeholders and sub-awardees Loyola University Chicago, the Young Women's...

This $650,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) supports the development of engineered microbial sensors for assessing water quality. The primary objective is to create new low-cost sensing systems that can detect chemicals in water throughout the water cycle, including wastewater treatment, drinking water, industrial use, and stormwater discharges. The project employs a convergence research...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded a $649,986 Project Grant under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program (CFDA 10.212) to Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc. (IOS) to develop an affordable, reliable, and accurate water quality monitoring system using drone-mounted optical sensors. The goal of this 24-month project is to create a real-time water quality monitoring solution that...

The Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 awarded the Minnesota Department of Health a $228,000 Project Grant under the Beach Monitoring and Notification Program Implementation Grants (CFDA 66.472) to support water quality monitoring and public notification efforts at recreational beaches in Minnesota from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022. Specifically, the state will collect and analyze water samples from 36 designated beaches on a semi-weekly or weekly basis, depending on beach tier...

The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) will receive $164,620 from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Water Pollution Control State, Interstate, and Tribal Program Support (CFDA 66.419) Formula Grant to conduct special water quality monitoring through September 2027. As part of its routine ambient monitoring program, LDEQ will monitor for acrolein, acrylonitrile, bis(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate, silvex, and thallium, parameters not typically included in its...

This Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Beach Monitoring and Notification Program Implementation Grants (CFDA 66.472) program, funds the Minnesota Department of Health's (MN DOH) beach monitoring and public notification efforts for the upcoming swimming season. The $203,000 award will support MN DOH's activities to monitor water quality at designated recreational beaches in Minnesota, test for bacterial contamination, and notify the public...

This $206,000 Environmental Protection Agency project grant funds the Indiana Department of Environmental Management's beach monitoring and notification program for the 2023 swimming season. The program will monitor water quality at designated recreational beaches in Indiana, notifying the public of any exceedances of bacteria thresholds through advisories or closures. It will deliver water quality monitoring data, public notification actions, and an annual summary report to the EPA. The grant...