Town Of Wardensville

Town of Wardensville, West Virginia, a municipal government entity operating a water and sewer utility division, acts as a federal grant recipient (50% of recent awards) and sub-recipient (50%) in rural water infrastructure, wastewater treatment, emergency preparedness, and energy-efficiency projects. The town competes in full-and-open federal grant programs without SBA set-aside designations; it is not a for-profit vendor and does not hold federal contracts or seats on contract vehicles.

The town's grant footprint centers on rural water and wastewater infrastructure. As a prime recipient, Wardensville has received a $476,000 project grant from the Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service under the Water and Waste Disposal Systems for Rural Communities program (CFDA 10.760) awarded July 31, 2023, to fund water and waste projects serving financially constrained rural communities. A second prime grant, awarded August 14, 2025, comes from Rural Utilities Service under the Community Project Grants Congressionally Delegated program, running through August 14, 2027. A third award, dated May 1, 2025, is an Organizational Capacity grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission running through April 30, 2027. As a sub-recipient, Wardensville receives flow-through funding from the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection for a wastewater treatment and collection system upgrade, which includes lift-station upgrades and installation of a SCADA monitoring system alongside an infiltration and inflow study to guide future utility planning. Additional sub-recipient work includes an emergency generator award from the West Virginia Division of Emergency Management (October 23, 2024) and a sustainable buildings and energy-efficiency project from the West Virginia Office of Energy (September 23, 2024) focused on reducing the town's carbon footprint through efficient appliances and equipment in key facilities.

Federal customer concentration is divided across Rural Utilities Service (two awards), Federal Emergency Management Agency Headquarters Financial Assistance Awards (two awards), and single awards each from the Department of Justice Community Oriented Policing Program, Environmental Protection Agency Region 3, and the Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. The portfolio covers 88% of recorded recent awards. Combined dollars obligated across all eight awards total $3.8 million. Activity has risen from a single award in 2009 to three awards in each of 2024 and 2025. Two awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete opportunity. The town does not serve as a contractor to other federal primes and does not maintain positions on GWACs, BPAs, or agency-wide IDIQs.