The City of Salem Public Works department, through Salem Revised Codes (SRC)
72.230 and
74.190, administers grant programs to incentivize reduction of water consumption and to decrease wastewater demands on the City's treatment facilities.
The Water Conservation grant program was developed with the goal of decreasing water demand, maximizing the life of existing water supply facilities, postponing the need for development of new treatment and transmission facilities, and providing proper management of the our water resource.
The Pretreatment grant program was developed to aid industrial and institution sewer uses in developing systems to decrease wastewater flows, solids, and biological oxygen demand (BOD) loadings to the Willow Lake Wastewater Treatment Facility.