威斯康星州启动首批PFAS饮用水拨款：社区采样补助与私人井检测项目开放申请
威斯康星州州长 Tony Evers 与州自然资源部（Department of Natural Resources, DNR）10月20日在 Madison 宣布，启动该州首批两个以保障饮用水安全为目标的 PFAS 拨款项目：PFAS 社区采样补助项目（PFAS Community Grants Sampling Program）与威斯康星 PFAS 私人井检测项目（Wisconsin PFAS Private Well Testing Program, WisPPWT）。据州长办公室发布的新闻稿，两个项目即日起陆续开放申请。
两个项目的资金来自该州 1.25 亿美元 PFAS 信托基金。这笔资金在 2023-25 两年期预算中获批后闲置逾两年，今年 4 月州长签署 2025 Wisconsin Acts 200 与 201 两项法案后才得以释放，连同利息已增至约 1.335 亿美元。州长办公室表示，这是该信托基金首次以拨款形式进入全州社区。
社区采样补助项目出自两项法案中约 7,900 万美元的社区项目投资，首轮（Cycle A）申请期为 2026 年 10 月至 2027 年 4 月，约六个月。县、市、村、镇、部落治理机构、公用事业区等主体均可申请，用于制定采样计划，并对私人井、学校与托育机构用井以及生物固体等开展 PFAS 采样检测。按 DNR 指引，申请方须提供至少 20% 的配套资金。
私人井检测项目由 Acts 200/201 拨付 1,000 万美元。私人井主可领取由州卫生服务实验室寄送的采样包，自行取样后以预付邮资寄回检测。此外，两项法案还为既有的井水补偿补助项目（Well Compensation Grant Program）追加 3,500 万美元，并扩大申请资格，让更多井水受污染的家庭、企业、学校与托育机构可以申领更换水井或加装处理系统的补助。
PFAS 是全氟和多氟烷基物质的统称，因在环境中极难降解而被称为「永久化学品」。今年，威斯康星州已将饮用水中 PFOA 与 PFOS 的上限由 70 ppt 收紧至 4.0 ppt，与联邦标准一致。DNR 的自然资源委员会定于 10 月 28 日在 Madison 开会，表决 DG-02-25 号规则提案，拟为六种 PFAS 物质设定地下水数值标准。
Evers 在声明中说，他很高兴能与 DNR 一道启动首批拨款项目，让全州居民获得安全洁净的饮用水。
Wisconsin Launches First PFAS Drinking Water Grant Programs for Community Sampling and Private Well Testing
Governor Tony Evers and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced in Madison on October 20 the launch of the state's first two PFAS grant programs aimed at safe drinking water: the PFAS Community Grants Sampling Program and the Wisconsin PFAS Private Well Testing Program (WisPPWT). According to the governor's office, applications for the two programs are opening now.
The money comes from the state's $125 million PFAS Trust Fund. Approved in the 2023-25 biennial budget, the fund sat unspent for more than two years until the governor signed 2025 Wisconsin Acts 200 and 201 in April; with accrued interest it has grown to about $133.5 million. The governor's office said this is the first time the trust fund is reaching communities across the state in the form of grants.
The community sampling program draws on roughly $79 million in community project investment under the two acts. Its first cycle (Cycle A) runs from October 2026 through April 2027, about six months. Counties, cities, villages, towns, tribal governing bodies and utility districts may apply to develop sampling plans and test private wells, wells at schools and childcare facilities, and biosolids for PFAS. Under DNR guidance, applicants must provide a cost match of at least 20 percent.
The private well testing program is funded with $10 million under Acts 200 and 201. Private well owners can receive a sampling kit mailed by the State Laboratory of Hygiene, collect a sample and return it with prepaid postage. The two acts also add $35 million to the existing Well Compensation Grant Program and expand its eligibility, so that more households, businesses, schools and childcare facilities with contaminated wells can get help replacing a well or adding a treatment system.
PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are known as "forever chemicals" because they break down very slowly in the environment. Wisconsin this year tightened its drinking water limits for PFOA and PFOS from 70 parts per trillion to 4.0 ppt, in line with the federal standard. The DNR's Natural Resources Board is scheduled to meet in Madison on October 28 to vote on rule package DG-02-25, which would set numeric groundwater standards for six PFAS compounds.
In the statement, Gov. Evers said he was "jazzed to join the DNR in launching the first grant programs" to ensure safe, clean drinking water for residents statewide.
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图片来源：位于 Madison 的威斯康星州议会大厦，两个拨款项目由州长与州自然资源部在此宣布。照片：Wikideas1 摄，CC0，经维基共享资源／The Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison, where the governor and the DNR announced the two grant programs. Photo: Wikideas1, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
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