Cooperative Agreement NA20NMF4630297

The Town of Plymouth, MA has been awarded a $20,042,000 Cooperative Agreement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Habitat Conservation program (CFDA 11.463). The funding will be used to construct a fishway around the historic Jenney Pond Dam, the last remaining passage barrier on Town Brook, to open access to habitat for river herring and American eel. The project will also involve dredging and restoring the pond behind the dam, which is expected to...

This $499,025 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage program (CFDA 15.685) will enable American Rivers, a non-profit organization, to remove the Washburn Mill Dam on the Mohawk River in Colebrook, New Hampshire. The dam removal project will restore 39.3 miles of river connectivity and 10 acres of cold-water brook trout habitat. This will improve public safety, habitat connectivity, fisheries population resilience,...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through the National Fish Habitat Partnership (CFDA 15.686) program, awarded a $117,602 Project Grant to The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to advance the removal of two dams - the Lower and Upper E.R. Collins Dams - on the Pequest River in Belvidere, New Jersey. The grant funding will support extensive engineering studies to assess project feasibility, develop engineering design plans for concurrent removal of the two dams, and secure necessary permits. Once...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Resources Conservation Service under the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention program (CFDA 10.904) provides $206,550.00 to the Town of Harwich, Massachusetts to design the Upper Cold Brook Fish Passage Project. The project aims to improve migratory fish passage to Grassy Pond by replacing a culvert and installing a water control structure. The award period runs from Aug 30, 2023 to Dec 30, 2026. The project...

The Town of Westerly was awarded a $1,365,600 Cooperative Agreement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Habitat Conservation Grant Program (CFDA 11.463). The project will assess and implement a fish passage solution at the Potter Hill Dam, the last barrier on the Pawcatuck River mainstem. This will provide access to over 3,000 acres of spawning habitat and 120 miles of stream habitat for river herring and other migratory fish. The project is part of a larger...

The Town of Harwich, Massachusetts was awarded a $246,150 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Resources Conservation Service under the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention program (CFDA 10.904). The funding will support the design of the RT 124 Bike Path Fish Passage Project ID# HA-FP-UP-2 to improve fish passage in the Herring River Long Pond. The project will be completed by December 30, 2026. The Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention program...

The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) was awarded a $2,350,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5 National Fish Habitat Partnership (CFDA 15.686) program. This grant, awarded on June 9, 2023, will fund the removal of the Quinapoxet Dam in Boylston, Massachusetts and restoration of the river channel. The dam removal and river restoration work is expected to be completed by September 30, 2025. The project aims to improve habitat...

The Town of Durham, a U.S. local government and municipality, has received a $100,000 project grant from the Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage program (CFDA #15.685) to remove the Mill Pond Dam and install a fish ladder on the Oyster Reservoir Dam along the Oyster River. This project will restore approximately 1.8 miles of free-flowing habitat along the Oyster River mainstem and another 3.4 miles of tributaries, improving passage for...

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 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded The Nature Conservancy a $6,907,214 Cooperative Agreement under the Habitat Conservation Federal Grant Program (CFDA 11.463) to remove the Upper and Lower E.R. Collins Dams on the Pequest River, a tributary to the Delaware River. This project, alongside the removal of two other upstream dams already underway, will open access to mainstem and tributary habitat for migratory fish species such as American shad and river herring....