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SERCAP - Web Image - for Essential & Critical Needs Program
Currently, SERCAP’s Essential & Critical Needs Program is assisting a low-income, single man living in Gloucester County, VA, to install new water/wastewater service-lines at his home. SERCAP’s Essential & Critical Needs Program provides eligible low-to-moderate income (LMI) homeowners with small grants to address critical water and wastewater needs. This client lives in his home alone, and recently began experiencing difficulty with the water/wastewater service-lines at his home. However, due to his low-income status, he was unable to afford the cost of installing new service-lines without causing serious financial hardship... 
Safe and Affordable Housing. For All.
Recently, SERCAP’s Housing Department assisted a low-income senior man living in Rockingham County, VA. He had lived in his home for over 25 years but just recently began experiencing difficulty with his septic system, and it turned out that his septic system had failed. However, due to the client’s low-income status, he was unable to afford the cost of replacing the septic system on his own without causing serious financial hardship. Fortunately, he was referred to SERCAP’s Housing Department by one of the agency’s Region 5 Indoor Plumbing & Rehabilitation (IPR) Committee Members, and the agency was able to qualify him for financial assistance under the IPR-Flex Program...
SERCAP - Web Image - for Facilities Development Program
Recently, SERCAP’s Facilities Development Grant Program assisted the Keysville Well Project in the Town of Keysville in Charlotte County, Virginia. The initial well system was established in the 1900s, but since the 1970s the Town had utilized a reservoir (initially built due to the opening of several factories in the area), which provided 0.77 Million Gallons per Day (MGD) and used a conventional slow sand filtration water treatment plant (WTP)...
SERCAP - Web Image - for Essential & Critical Needs Program
Recently, SERCAP’s Essential & Critical Needs Program assisted a low-income, single man living in Caroline County, VA, to repair the sewer line at his home. The client has lived in his home for over 60 years, and recently began experiencing difficulty with his sewer line. Specifically, there was a blockage which was causing the difficulty with the sewer line, leading to the need for repairs. However, due to his low-income status, he was unable to afford the cost of the sewer line repair without causing serious financial hardship... 
SERCAP - Web Image - for Facilities Development Program
SERCAP’s Facilities Development Program recently awarded a Facilities Development Grant to the Willing Workers Club Water System in the community of Carrollton in Isle of Wight County, Virginia. The Willing Workers Club Water System is a small, privately owned water system, which was founded in the mid 1990’s by the residents to serve the small minority community of Carrollton. The small community well system provides water service to 18 households...
SERCAP - Web Image - Business Services
During the Fall of 2021, SERCAP will launch a new Business/Economic Development Program, which will support Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners across the Commonwealth of Virginia. The new Business/Economic Development Program will provide Technical Assistance (TA) and comprehensive Business Services to individuals looking to start or grow a small business, which will have a positive long-term impact on the community...
SERCAP - Web Image - for Essential & Critical Needs Program
Recently, SERCAP’s Essential & Critical Needs Program assisted a low-income, single woman living in Russell County, VA, to get her home hooked-up to public water. The client had been experiencing difficulty with her old well, which eventually stopped producing any water at all, leaving her without reliable access to running water in her home. Since the area in which she lives has access to public water, she determined that connecting to the public water system would be the best solution to her problem...
SERCAP - Web Image - for Individual Household Well Loans
SERCAP’s Certified CDFI (Community Development Financial Institution) Loan Fund just approved an Individual Household Well Loan to assist a low-income couple in Amherst County, VA. Recently, the couple began experiencing significant difficulty with their individual household water well, due to especially low water pressure. They determined that the well was in need of repairs, however, because of their low-income status, they are not able to afford the necessary repairs on their own, without causing serious financial hardship...
SERCAP - Web Image - for Individual Household Well Loans
Southeast Rural Community Assistance Project, Inc.’s (SERCAP) certified CDFI (Community Development Financial Institution) Loan Fund has been an intermediary for USDA RD’s Individual Household Well Loan program since 2005 (approximately 16 years). The low-interest Individual Household Well Loan Product allows SERCAP to provide low-interest (1%) to low-to-moderate income (LMI) households in order to repair or replace a damaged and/or failing (dry) drinking water well. Eligible applicants can borrow up to $11,000.00 with an interest rate of only 1%, and up to a 10-year loan term...