The Lake County Watershed Protection will identify priority areas and watersheds and assist with watershed assessments for Clear Lake and Cache Creek in Lake County, California under a $100,000 cooperative agreement award from the United States Department of Agriculture National Resources Conservation Service. The award is part of the Soil and Water Conservation CFDA 10.902 program, which provides conservation technical assistance to organizations through locally-based conservation...
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) received a $827,600 Project Grant award under the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469). With oversight from WDNR, the Bayfield County Land and Water Conservation Department and the City of Ashland will use this funding to address nonpoint source pollution concerns in the Fish Creek watershed and restore the Bay City Creek riparian corridor within Lake Superior. Key...
This Project Grant award of $300,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) provides funding to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. The key activities include identifying potential green infrastructure and climate resilient practices to treat and capture untreated stormwater runoff in the Veterans Lagoon. This involves a feasibility study conducted through a sub-award to Milwaukee...
The Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 awarded the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources $1,252,302 under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative federal grant program (CFDA 66.469) to administer three nonpoint source pollution reduction projects in key watersheds of Lakes Michigan and Superior. The Wisconsin DNR will establish subawards to reduce agricultural runoff in the Bear Lake watershed and Eldorado Marsh-Fond du Lac River watershed by over $4,000 lbs of...
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the Cooperative Watershed Management Program (CFDA 15.554) to the Lake Thunderbird Watershed Alliance located in central Oklahoma. The funding will be used to address bank erosion and improve water quality in two impaired ponds representing the headwaters of the Lake Thunderbird watershed. The Alliance will work with local stakeholders to assess water quality, identify best management practices, and implement future...
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources was awarded a $2.48 million Project Grant from the Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) program. The grant will fund six projects through March 2027 to improve habitat conditions and water quality in three Areas of Concern within the Great Lakes basin in Wisconsin. Projects include completing the Pickle Pond restoration by implementing stormwater best practices; constructing a fishway...
The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 awarded a $202,355.25 Project Grant to the Clear Lake Township Land Conservancy Inc., a non-profit organization, under the National Fish Habitat Partnership (CFDA 15.686) program. The grant will fund the installation of water quality gage stations at two major inflows and one outflow of Clear Lake in northern Indiana. The gage stations will collect water samples every 4 hours during April-June and weekly for the remainder...
The Green Bay Metropolitan Sewerage District will receive $315,000 from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 under the Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration (NRDAR) federal grant program to restore riparian corridors along 16 miles of Ashwaubenon Creek and 10 miles of Dutchman Creek in Wisconsin. Over the next three years, the Sewerage District will address water quality, riparian and instream habitat fragmentation, and degraded aquatic habitat through...
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources received a $2,132,846 Project Grant award from the Environmental Protection Agency's Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) to administer four projects addressing high priority nonpoint source pollution concerns in the Fox River watersheds in Wisconsin. The three main projects will reduce agricultural nonpoint source loads in the Wuerches and Roy Creek, East River and Lower Fox River, and Plum and Kankapot Creek...
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $351,351 Project Grant under the Cooperative Watershed Management Program (CFDA 15.554) to the Cache Creek Conservancy in Yolo County, California. The grant will support the creation of a new watershed group to address the impacts of climate change on the Lower Cache Creek watershed, which sustains vital agricultural, tribal, and environmental interests. The watershed group will develop a knowledge base on water supply, demand, environmental flows, and...