As a professional engineering firm engaged in municipal engineering services for over 35 years, Delaware Engineering D.P.C. has extensive experience in successfully assisting dozens of municipalities in securing hundreds of millions of dollars in low-cost borrowing and grant funds. With our focus on municipal infrastructure, our area of expertise lies particularly in securing low-cost financing and grants from the NYS Environmental Facility Corporation’s (NYSEFC) through the State Revolving Funds (SRF) for both Drinking Water and Clean Water and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) funding, as well as grants through the NYS Water Infrastructure Improvement Act (WIIA). Over the past several years, we have assisted numerous communities in securing millions in WIIA grants in addition to low-cost and no-cost SRF financing for water and sewer projects.

We also have experience in successfully securing grants from the USDA’s Rural Development programs and the Community Development Block Grant program for public facilities and infrastructure projects. In addition, we have assisted communities in successfully securing grant funds from the NYS Department of State for flood planning and have assisted several communities in developing documentation for over $3 million in grant funds under the New York Rising Program.  Finally, we have successfully secured funds through the NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation for historic preservation, park planning and trail projects.

Since its inception, we have submitted dozens of grant applications on behalf of municipalities through the State’s Consolidated Funding Application (CFA) process for a wide variety of programs including Engineering Planning Grants (EPG), Water Quality Improvement Projects (WQIP), and Climate Smart Communities (CSC), to name a few.

Our Approach to Winning Grants:

 Delaware Engineering has assisted numerous communities in securing grants and low-cost loans. There are simple reasons for our high success rate:

• We assist clients in identifying project needs and budgets thoroughly
• We know the eligibility and winning characteristics for each grant program within our focus
• We have long-standing relationships with agency staff and can obtain informal feedback to ensure
  the highest quality applications.
• We submit high-quality, precisely focused applications at the right time in the grant cycles to ensure

The shot-gun approach to grant funds is rarely if ever successful and while it may seem admirable to state that a firm has submitted hundreds of applications, the better bet is the firm that has submitted many quality applications and been successful with essentially all, which is the case with our firm. The time and effort dedicated to properly scoping a project and matching the project to the grant source is repaid with an accomplished grant attainment record. As a consultant in numerous communities, grant applications and administration is a frequent effort for our firm. We encourage contact with our references to verify our exceptionally successful grant writing efforts.