Call for Projects

Information about the project solicitation process is provided here. Potential projects must have a completed pre-application to be included in the State Revolving Fund Intended Use Plan.

GEFA Water Financing Call for Projects

GEFA is opening the following 2026 call for projects:

Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF)
Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF)
Georgia Fund
Hurricane Helene Resilience Funding

To be eligible for funding, please submit a pre-application by 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 31, 2025. Pre-applications received after this time will not be scored. A pre-application does not obligate you to apply or guarantee funding. Applicants must complete the pre-application in its entirety, including all required supplemental attachments. Please do not submit more than one pre-application for the same project.

GEFA is offering office hours appointments. Please click here to sign up for a time slot to discuss your project funding needs with GEFA staff.

Hurricane Helene Resilience Funding

For a project to be eligible for Helene resilience funding through GEFA, it must be SRF eligible and serve the overall purpose of enhancing the resilience of drinking water, wastewater, and decentralized wastewater systems to flooding and natural disasters.

Click the link to see more information on this new funding.

Click here to submit pre-application.

CWSRF, DWSRF, and Georgia Fund

The CWSRF, DWSRF, and Georgia Fund call for projects for water quality (wastewater, stormwater, nonpoint source pollution), drinking water, and solid waste projects is open. Planning, engineering, design, and capital projects are eligible for financing. GEFA will use affordability criteria and project rank to determine principal forgiveness for the CWSRF and DWSRF. Affordability criteria and scores for Georgia communities are located below. GEFA reserves the right to offer principal forgiveness to those projects that meet a priority of a specific funding program.

GEFA has updated the project scoring criteria to rank projects. Project ranking is based on readiness to proceed, compliance benefits, public health (DWSRF), water quality (CWSRF), priority project types, priority planning elements, priority applicant status, and cybersecurity.

CWSRF and DWSRF projects will be listed in priority order, incorporated into the Intended Use Plans, and submitted to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Conservation projects (water, energy, land conservation, and nonpoint source pollution control projects), WaterFirst and PlanFirst Communities, and communities with high affordability scores are eligible for interest rate discounts.

Click here to submit a pre-application.

Resources:

CWSRF Eligibility

DWSRF Eligibility

Georgia Fund Eligibility