Cooperative Agreement 5950803001

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources will restore 19 acres of wetlands in Allen County, Ohio under a $1.3 million Project Grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5's Great Lakes Restoration Initiative program. The wetland restoration activities will reduce stormwater and nutrient runoff in the Western Basin of Lake Erie by an estimated 207 million gallons and 292 pounds of phosphorus annually. Allen County will hire a contractor to conduct excavation,...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $500,000 Project Grant under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA) to implement a technology assistance program. The program will demonstrate how advances in automated drainage water management (ADWM) systems can benefit water quality in Lake Erie by reducing nutrient loading, as well as provide farming benefits through improved conditions....

The Lefthand Watershed Oversight Group received a $299,196 Cooperative Watershed Management Program grant from the Bureau of Reclamation to expand existing watershed management planning within the St. Vrain watershed in Colorado. The group will develop a wildfire risk assessment, conduct a watershed-scale analysis, and identify, prioritize, and develop two to three key river restoration projects that complement ongoing forest mitigation efforts. The project aims to address the impacts of climate...

This Project Grant award, funded by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation under the SECURE Water Act - Research Agreements program (CFDA 15.560), will examine the influence of whole valley-floor restoration on late summer baseflows in Meadow Creek, Oregon. The $116,505 award, effective August 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026, will use two complementary approaches: Developing a surface flow model (HEC-RAS-2D) linked with a groundwater flow model (FLOPY) to simulate pre-...

The Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) received a $1,000,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) to place conservation agronomists within the Western Lake Erie Basin region. The agronomists will work closely with farmers to implement sustainable farming practices and strengthen local conservation networks, with the goal of reducing off-site movement of nutrients. Key activities...

The Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $749,855 Project Grant under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program to the University of Delaware on August 1, 2022 for completion by July 31, 2026. The grant will fund research to quantify current spatial patterns of streamflow depletion and nitrogen pollution from croplands across the Mississippi River Basin and identify configurations of targeted land conservation payments that can...

The National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) awarded a $190,296 project grant to Susquehanna University to evaluate the effectiveness of using beaver dam analogs (BDAs) to manage urban stormwater and improve the health of degraded urban streams. The 2-year project, titled "EMBRACE-EAR-SEED: Reshaping Environments: Low-Tech, Process-Based Restoration with Beaver Dam Analogues to Enhance Watershed Resilience in Human-Modified Landscapes," will investigate how...

The Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 awarded a $774,074 Project Grant under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) federal grant program to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency on March 29, 2021. The grant will support implementation of six non-point source pollution reduction projects in the Maumee Watershed by the Ohio EPA Division of Surface Water in partnership with local governments, soil and water conservation districts, and The Ohio State...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $1,750,000 Project Grant to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA) under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA #66.469) program. The grant funds will be used to demonstrate technologies for reducing nutrient loading from nonpoint sources and addressing harmful algal blooms in western Lake Erie. Specifically, Ohio EPA will work with partners Maumee Watershed Alliance and The Ohio State University to implement the...

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency was awarded a $450,000 project grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) federal grant program (CFDA #66.469) to improve degraded benthic communities and fish habitat in Tenmile Creek in Berkey, Ohio. Specifically, the Ohio EPA will work with Partners for Clean Streams, Inc. on a stream restoration project to stabilize approximately 600 feet of eroding streambanks, restore 900 feet...