Water infrastructure intelligence — Wisconsin

The clearest movement this cycle belongs to City of Portage, where a wastewater treatment upgrade covering phosphorus removal, equipment upgrades, and biosolids drying carries a requested amount of $55.5M on file. Two new entries also stand out: City of Jefferson appeared on the priority list for the first time with a wastewater treatment plant construction project estimated at $126.5M, and City of Oak Creek was added to the list with a drinking water project, including a CL contact tank, UV disinfection, and lift pumps, estimated at $50.0M. On a smaller scale, City of Stanley and Village of Iron Ridge both climbed in priority rank, for well rehabilitation estimated at $326K and headworks upgrades estimated at $1.5M, respectively.

Across the category rollup, wastewater treatment carries the largest tracked value at $2.0B across 223 projects, while collection and sewer work spans the most projects of any category, 307, totaling $922.3M. Watermain and distribution work follows closely in project count at 226, valued at $385.7M, and PFAS and emerging contaminants projects, while fewest in count at 38, still represent $385.8M, a signal that smaller categories can carry outsized dollar weight relative to their project counts.

The net shrinkage of 72 projects on the list sits apart from the separate counts of additions and removals, since new listings, entries into the fundable range, and no-longer-listed projects are drawn from different parts of the roster and do not reconcile into that single figure. What is concrete is this: $639.2M in projects moved onto the intended use plan roster, and $297.8M in net cost changes shows that estimates on file continue to move upward more often than down. Readers tracking Clean Water Fund Program and Safe Drinking Water Loan Program entries will want to watch which of the 175 fundable-range projects advance onto the IUP roster in the next cycle.