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Stormwater Quality

Community Action Grants

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The City’s Department of Utilities each year offers reimbursements to community groups to help fund projects that protect, restore or enhance rivers, creeks and nearby areas in the city.

Eligible projects are designed to help prevent urban runoff pollution and protect water quality.

A variety of community groups — including schools and student groups, neighborhood organizations and informal groups — can apply.

How to apply

Application information will be provided in Summer 2026.

Eligibility

Projects must benefit, protect, or enhance local creeks, rivers, or watershed, be within city of Sacramento boundaries and/or directly affect the residents of the city of Sacramento.

The following types of groups can apply:

  • Schools and student groups
  • Service clubs
  • Youth organizations
  • Homeowners associations
  • Community and neighborhood groups
  • Property Business Improvement Districts
  • Non-profit groups
  • Informal groups with innovative ideas 

Individuals and for-profit groups are not eligible.

Eligible uses of grant funding includes:

  • Purchase of materials and supplies
  • Equipment rental
  • Promotion of a volunteer event
  • Volunteer recruitment
  • Meals for volunteers
  • Purchase of native vegetation

Grant funding does not cover planning, research, payment for labor, travel except for bus rental, curriculum development, administrative processing fees, or activities required for compliance with regulatory requirements.

Project ideas

Applicants are encouraged to use their imagination to generate new ideas, be innovative and have fun.

Education projects

  • Create materials or activities that educate people on how to help prevent pollution
  • Write a stream or watershed guidebook and conduct tours or field trips
  • Create displays or signs related to water quality

School projects

  • Go on a field trip to learn about Sacramento’s watershed, creeks, or the rivers
  • Create a classroom activity that involves watersheds, creeks, or the rivers
  • Purchase a watershed model for the classroom
  • Adopt a creek, river, or watershed near your school

Outreach projects

  • Coordinate clean-up days on local creeks or rivers
  • Hold a creek, river, or watershed workshop for community members

Restoration projects

  • Organize events to remove non-native plants and plant new ones near creeks or rivers
  • Construct and re-vegetate stream-side interpretive trails

Monitoring projects

  • Conduct a monitoring program on a local creek, river, or watershed
  • Evaluate the condition of the native plants and habitat of a creek, river, or watershed

Neighborhood projects

  • Start neighborhood cleanup events
  • Improve a vacant lot
  • Develop a community garden that uses integrated pest management
  • Install and maintain trash and cigarette receptacles

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