Cooperative Agreement F15AC00935

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded the City of Brunswick, Ohio a $927,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Congressionally Mandated Projects program (CFDA 66.202) to implement a project to improve stormwater management by removing accumulated sediment within North Park Lake. The key activities to be performed include mobilization, lake dewatering, dredging and embankment, erosion and sediment control, stone roadway construction for access, path restoration, and grass...

This $12,000,000 Project Grant, awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 9 under the Geographic Programs - San Francisco Bay Water Quality Improvement Fund (CFDA 66.126), will fund the California State Coastal Conservancy to facilitate the beneficial reuse of dredged sediment from federal navigation channels for wetland restoration in the San Francisco Bay. Specifically, the Conservancy will enter a Memorandum of Understanding with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)...

This $4,142,968 Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 9 under the Geographic Programs - San Francisco Bay Water Quality Improvement Fund (CFDA 66.126) supports a collaborative effort led by the Fairfield-Suisun Sewer District (FSSD) and the San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI) to accelerate the implementation of nature-based shoreline adaptation solutions in the San Francisco Bay. The key activities funded through this grant include: 1) Developing a...

This two-year, $224,990 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support research to advance understanding of particle-laden gravity currents. The University of California, Santa Barbara will integrate analytical modeling, numerical simulation, laboratory experimentation, and field data to study the dynamics of gravity and particle-driven currents released...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems provides $255,634 to support research advancing understanding of particle-laden gravity currents under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The Massachusetts Institute of Technology will collaborate with analytical modeling, numerical simulation, laboratory experimentation, and unique field data to develop empirical models predicting transport processes in...

This $100,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration (NRDAR) Program (CFDA 15.658) will fund the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (MDEGLE) to collect sediment core samples and conduct probing transects upstream of the Allegan City Dam along the Kalamazoo River. The data collected will characterize the sediments down to pre-dam historic riverbed levels, which...

The City of Stockton, California will design a groundwater recharge improvement project adjacent to the Delta Water Treatment Plant, funded by a $1,397,655 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation under the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA 15.507). The project will involve constructing three recharge ponds, connections and conveyance systems, and monitoring systems including wells and surface water gages. This...

This $148,554 Project Grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 1 supports the University of Connecticut in measuring rates of nitrate removal and characterizing stream geomorphology in tributaries discharging to eight Long Island Sound embayments. The University will conduct stream nitrate tracer experiments under three discharge conditions and concurrent stream surveys and sampling to characterize streambed sediment and channel geomorphology. It will also evaluate the...

This $1,500,000 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 9 to the California State Coastal Conservancy (CSCC) aims to advance living shoreline projects in San Francisco Bay. The project is funded through the EPA's Geographic Programs - San Francisco Bay Water Quality Improvement Fund (CFDA 66.126), which supports efforts to improve water quality and restore aquatic habitats in the San Francisco Bay region. The project will accomplish the following...

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency will evaluate habitat improvement of the St. Louis River Area of Concern through collecting and analyzing habitat construction and sediment quality data under a $396,586 Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 Project Grant awarded September 30, 2021. Deliverables will include data sets to generate biological metrics, sediment quality assessments, and biological and stream parameter measurements to quantify restoration efforts and evaluate progress...