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Did Derrick Van Orden secure millions for safe drinking water in western Wisconsin?

Matches stated record claim. 2024 funding tables list $2 million each for Eau Claire and Town of Campbell water projects he requested, plus $800,000 for a third; results are not shown.

Derrick Van Orden

Money for western Wisconsin drinking water

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What they say

His campaign says he has secured millions in funding to provide western Wisconsin with drinking water that is safe from contaminants.

“secured millions in funding to provide western Wisconsin with drinking water that is safe from contaminants”

What the record shows ·

The final FY2024 Interior funding tables list the City of Eau Claire Water Treatment Project at $2,000,000 and the Town of Campbell Water Utility Project at $2,000,000, each naming Van Orden in the House requester column, alongside a third Wisconsin drinking-water project at $800,000 requested by him. His congressional office had announced the first two as requests in November 2023.

Limit: The tables establish that the money was appropriated and that he was the member who requested it. They do not establish that the water is now free of contaminants: an appropriation is not a finished treatment plant, and no source here shows when either project was built or what it delivered. Community project funding is listed in the joint explanatory statement rather than in the law itself.

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  1. Van Orden for Congress, issueshttps://vanordenforcongress.com/issues/

    Van Orden for Congress · Reviewed Sep 22, 2026

    Captured 2026-09-22; 1,074 words. The campaign's own site, identified by its "Paid for by Van Orden for Congress" line. Note that derrickvanorden.com is a registrar parking page and is not this site.

    candidate statement

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  2. FY2024 Interior joint explanatory statement, community project funding tables (document)

    U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 22, 2026

    The final funding tables accompanying the FY2024 Interior appropriation. Read on 2026-09-22: the drinking water state revolving fund rows list "City of Eau Claire for Water Treatment Project 2,000,000 Van Orden" and "Town of Campbell for Water Utility Project 2,000,000 Van Orden", with a third Wisconsin project at 800,000 also requested by him. Community project funding is listed here rather than in the statute, which is why searching the enacted law and the Congressional Record for these projects returns nothing.

    official legislative record

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  3. Van Orden champions clean water funding for Wisconsin's third district in FY24https://vanorden.house.gov/media/press-releases/van-orden-champions-clean-water-funding-wisconsins-third-district-fy24

    Office of Rep. Derrick Van Orden · Reviewed Sep 22, 2026

    His congressional office's own account of two community project funding items requested in the FY2024 Interior appropriations bill: $2,000,000 for PFAS filtration equipment in Eau Claire and $2,000,000 for a new water system for the Town of Campbell. A request is what this source records; it is not an appropriation.

    official office record

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