What's New
January 14, 2006
Hauser Lake, Idaho
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Directory of Watershed Resources: Search online for Funding Sources.
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New Publications!
Financial Capacity Assessment Indicators - Report for Idaho Drinking Water SRF - Updated May 2005
Arsenic: Information for Idaho Drinking Water Systems.
As part of our continuing mission to provide help to those facing the "how to pay" challenges of environmental protection, the Environmental Finance Center at Boise State University provides the following services and tools.
For more information, please contact us with our feedback form.
Services
Utility Rate Design Workshops
Utility Rate Design with RATECheckup™
Capital Facilities Financing with CAPFinance™
Watershed Funding Workshops
Unified Source Water Protection Pilot Project
Drinking Water System Capacity Development
Brownfields
Information for Idaho Water Systems Concerning Arsenic in Drinking Water
Tools
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Plan2FundÔ is a watershed planning tool that walks users through estimating the costs of their watershed plans goals and objectives, assessing any local match, and determining the funding gap needed to meet the goals and objectives of the plan. View an online Plan2Fund tutorial.
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The
Directory of Watershed Resources - An on-line, searchable database of
financial resources for watershed restoration in Oregon, Idaho, Washington and
Alaska
View an online Directory of Watershed Resources tutorial.
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A Guidebook of Financial Tools
- A reference work that provides an overview of a wide
range of ways and means that are useful in paying for sustainable environmental
systems. It is divided into ten sections, presenting outline information on
approximately 340 financial tools.
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Capacity Tracker ™
assists in tracking financial information over the duration of a loan. Using
eight key ratios to collect and track information, the program shows the
movement of the ratio over time and compares its overall condition or risk level
to benchmarks. Click
here for the Draft Capacity
Tracker Instruction Manual.
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The Financial Analysis Calculator for Exemptions assists
regulators in the process of
reviewing a Public Water System’s application for an exemption to a drinking
water standard through the analysis of a system’s financial and
economic condition. The program generates reports on the current
financial and economic condition of the system and trends
over time, the affordability of current water rates, and the financial and
affordability impacts of financing capital improvements to meet the water
quality standard.
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CAPFinance™ - An integrated capital asset inventory and reinvestment analysis software program for drinking water systems.
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Ratio8™ - A guidebook and spreadsheet program to help local decision-makers evaluate their water utility's financial condition.
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Rate Checkup™- Powerful, easy-to-use rate-setting and financial planning software for water utilities. |
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Utility
Budgeting Workbook - Worksheets that
assist operators, managers and board members in determining whether key criteria
of financial viability are being met by a utility system and help determine if
that system will have the financial capabilities necessary for the sustained
provision of services for its customers.
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System Development Charge Calculator
This calculator predicts the unit cost of adding new development to an existing water system. Built in Microsoft Excel, the SDC calculator can generate system development charges on an equivalent residential unit (ERU) basis or based on service meter size. Water system officials have the option of using the Growth Method or Equity Buy-In Method (or both) to determine how much new development should pay to connect to the existing water system. The Calculator also easily imports data from your capital asset inventory database (developed in CAPFinance).
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