Quinlan Community Water District No. 1 receives $15,000 grant from OWRB

OKLAHOMA CITY – The Quinlan Community Water District No. 1 (District), in Woodward County, received approval for a $15,000 Emergency grant Tuesday through the Oklahoma Water Resources Board (OWRB) to improve the District’s water infrastructure. 

The District owns and operates a system consisting of two water wells and a standpipe.  One of the wells supplying the District has collapsed. OWRB's well driller personnel conducted a camera test which revealed the collapse was caused by mineralization and an iron bacterium which corroded the casing. Proceeds will be used to drill a well and install a fiberglass insulated well house. The estimated cost of the project is $200,000, which will be funded by a Rural Infrastructure Grant in the amount of $80,000, an Oklahoma Economic Development Authority  Grant of $75,000, local matching funds of $20,000, an in-kind match of $10,000, and the requested emergency grant of $15,000. 

Joe Freeman, chief of the OWRB's Financial Assistance Division, calculated that the grant will save the Authority’s customers $29,500 in principal and interest charges by not having to borrow the project funds. Since 1983 the Water Resources Board has approved over $7.1 billion in loans and grants for water and wastewater infrastructure improvements throughout Oklahoma. 

“We are grateful to State Senator Casey Murdock and State Representative Carl Newton for their continued support of water and wastewater infrastructure funding in Oklahoma,” said Julie Cunningham, OWRB Executive Director. 

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Contact:
Joe Freeman 
Oklahoma Water Resources Board 
(405) 530-8800 
Joe.Freeman@owrb.ok.gov