Cooperative Agreement F14AC00217

The Connecticut River Watershed Council, Inc. was awarded a $100,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5 under the Fish and Wildlife Management Assistance federal grant program (CFDA 15.608). The grant will support the removal of an old earthen dam and pump house on Kimball Brook in North Stratford, New Hampshire. This project aims to reconnect four miles of pristine brook trout habitat in Kimball Brook, a direct tributary to the Upper...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5 awarded a $302,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration (NRDAR) Program (CFDA 15.658) to the Housatonic Valley Association, Inc. to develop preliminary designs for replacing two barrier culverts on Pond Mountain Brook in Kent, Connecticut. The project aims to reconnect over 3 miles of high-quality cold-water habitat for Eastern Brook Trout within the Macedonia Brook watershed. The culvert replacements...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) provides $1,505,814 to Trout Unlimited, Inc. for a project to remove the Breached Cannondale Dam on the Norwalk River in Connecticut. The project will reconnect over 6 miles of stream habitat for priority migratory fish species such as sea lamprey, alewife, blueback herring, American eel, American shad, and gizzard shad. Additional work will target the next upstream...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) provides $100,000.00 to the Rhode Islands Chapter of Trout Unlimited to support the removal of the Capwell Mill Pond Dam on the Carr River in West Greenwich, Rhode Island. The dam removal project aims to restore 8 miles and 24 acres of aquatic habitat for native brook trout and other species by reconnecting fragmented stream ecosystems within the Big River...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 awarded a $635,000 cooperative agreement to Ecosystems Connections Institute, LLC from January 2, 2023 through December 31, 2025 under the Fish and Wildlife Management Assistance program (CFDA 15.608). The award will support dam removal services at the American Water Low Head Dam located in Seymour, Indiana to reconnect 836 stream miles of fish habitat. As part of the Fish and Aquatic Conservation activities conducted under the...

The City of Ypsilanti received a $4,465,000 cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) to finalize the removal design and fully remove the Peninsular Paper Dam from the Huron River. The project will restore aquatic organism passage and connectivity by deconstructing this 21-foot concrete gravity dam. Key activities include engineering design, sediment management, habitat protection, and...

This $1.2 million Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5 will fund the restoration of aquatic connectivity in the North Branch Potomac River (NBPR) watershed in Maryland. The project, under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685), will remove eight barriers to improve connectivity along 30 miles of stream habitat that supports Eastern Brook Trout populations. Key activities include replacing two culverts, removing a dam,...

The Town of Braintree, Massachusetts will receive a $2 million cooperative agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Habitat Conservation (CFDA 11.463) federal grant program. The funding will support two dam removal projects in the Monatiquot River watershed between April 1, 2023 and March 31, 2026. Specifically, the Town will completely remove two dams and restore river channels, improving habitat connectivity for fish and other aquatic species....

The Department of Marine Resources (MDMR) of Maine has received a $2,000,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Interior Fish and Wildlife Service's National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) to construct a new state-of-the-art fish lift at the Woodland Hydroelectric Project. This project aims to significantly improve access to over 600 miles of historic sea-run fish habitat and 60,000 acres of alewife habitat by modernizing the outdated 1960s-era fish passage at this...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 awarded a $189,250 Cooperative Agreement to Ecosystems Connections Institute, LLC under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) to support the removal of a low-head dam and fish passage barrier on the Little Wabash River in northern Indiana. This project will reconnect 423 stream miles (181,124 acres) of upstream aquatic habitat and provide access to nearly 500 meters of new fish and mussel habitat that is currently inaccessible due to the...