Michigan Boating Pumpout Grants

The Michigan Boating Pumpout Grant Program helps reduce pollution from vessel sewage discharges by encouraging safe disposal of recreational boater sewage. Applicants can use the funding to build new pumpout and dump stations or upgrade existing facilities. Eligible projects primarily include dump stations, additional pumpouts at large boating facilities, pumpouts for mooring facilities with a minimum of 15 slips, and upgrading of older pumpout systems. Both private and public boating facilities are eligible as long as they are open to the public. Any facility accepting grants must make pumpouts available to the public at a maximum charge of $5 per pumpout. Applications are typically accepted in the spring and the fall of each year. The application packet requires forms, estimates, photos, maps, a site plan, and a UEI number.