Success Stories


  • Environmental Finance Center

    During the next 20 years, $600 billion in infrastructure projects need to be completed to protect public health, yet budget constraints are an increasing reality. One solution is EFC.

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  • Castroville Community Services District

    Castroville is a farming community in Monterey County that has struggled to obtain grant funding for its water infrastructure and other facilities. The town’s community services district provides potable water and wastewater services to homes and businesses—a population of about 7,200 with 2,200 service connections. The district receives 100 percent of its water from groundwater that is at risk for seawater intrusion.

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  • Burbank Center Street Apartments

    The United States is in the midst of an affordable housing crisis, and California is one of the least affordable states in the country. Healdsburg, Sonoma County, has a population of just more than 11,000 and a median household income (MHI) of $65,638. Despite the MHI being slightly higher than Sonoma County’s, low-income renters in this high rent community are spending up to 68 percent of their income for housing costs.

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  • Big Rock Community Services District

    The Big Rock Community Services District (CSD) serves the small rural community of Hiouchi in California’s Del Norte County. The population numbers about 320 customers during the winter months each year and tens of thousands more are drawn to the local state and national parks during the tourism season. About 65 percent of the resident population is disadvantaged.

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  • Anza, California wildfires

    In late July, shortly before wildfires would sweep across much of California in what would become the state’s worst fire season on record, firefighters in Riverside County were already hard at work battling the Cranston fire 10 miles north of the rural community of Anza. Unfortunately, their eventual victory over the flames didn’t come soon enough for the residents of Anza who found themselves without power and water for two weeks straight …

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