Cooperative Agreement S11AC20049

The Department of the Interior's Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement awarded a $519,348 Cooperative Agreement to Stream Restoration Inc. (DBA US Carbon Sequestration Council), a non-profit organization, under the Not-for-Profit AMD Reclamation - Watershed Cooperative Agreement Program (CFDA 15.253). The funding will be used to rehabilitate the Maiden Passive Treatment System in Pennsylvania, which is expected to treat an estimated 150 million gallons of acid mine drainage...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) provides $191,320.00 in funding to the Lake County Soil and Water Conservation District (LCSWCD) in Minnesota. The agreement supports a feasibility study and design for restoration of the Beaver and Baptism Rivers, which are important spawning and wintering habitats for native brook trout. The key deliverables include two feasibility...

This four-year, $1,578,506 project grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Research and Development, under the Innovative Water Technology Grant Program (CFDA 66.521), will demonstrate a floating treatment wetland system to improve nutrient removal from wastewater lagoons in northern Michigan. Michigan Technological University will deploy the pilot system and monitor nutrient levels using various tests and sensing methods, investigate nutrient removal pathways, conduct...

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $2,748,947 Project Grant under the Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration Program (CFDA 15.580) to the Blue River Watershed Group (BRWG) and the Town of Silverthorne. The funding will support the engineering and design of a project to repair degraded aquatic habitat in the Blue River downstream of the Dillon Reservoir in Colorado. The project aims to address issues such as low flows, below average water temperatures, and lack of sediment and nutrient transport caused...

This federal Project Grant award, provided by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469), will fund Cleveland Metroparks to administer a project to modify an existing fish barrier and replace it with a rock ramp or similar solution. This will improve fish passage and stream and riparian habitat and resiliency within the Cuyahoga River Area of Concern (AOC). Key activities include site assessment,...

This $558,005 Project Grant award from the U.S. Geological Survey under the Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes program (CFDA 15.805) will fund a 3-year study on the occurrence, bioaccumulation, and biomagnification of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in natural and constructed wetlands. The key objectives are to: 1) understand if PFAS concentrations increase through the wetland food chain and evaluate the ability of wetlands to remove these chemicals; 2)...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 awarded a $480,506.87 Cooperative Agreement under the National Fish Passage program (CFDA 15.685) to Michigan Trout Unlimited, a non-profit organization. The funding will support a project to provide aquatic organism passage to 23 miles of the East Branch of the Au Sable River at the Grayling Fish Hatchery, where passage has been blocked for over 100 years. This will allow brook trout and other species to move freely...

This Bureau of Reclamation WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) Project Grant award of $931,402 to Trout Unlimited, Inc., in partnership with the Montana Natural Resource Damage Program (NRDP) and the Clark Fork Coalition, will fund the design of infrastructure improvements at ten irrigation diversion sites in the Upper Clark Fork River Basin in western Montana. The project aims to provide fish and recreational boat passage, screen irrigation ditches, and improve...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) awarded a $939,499.54 Cooperative Agreement to Trout Unlimited, Inc. through the National Fish Passage program (CFDA 15.685) to fund the Upper Greenbrier River Watershed Fish Passage Project in West Virginia. The project will remove 7 culverts acting as fish passage barriers and replace them with stream simulation-designed span structures, reconnecting 25 miles of habitat for priority species including brook trout, green floater, eastern hellbender, and...

This $750,000 federal 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 support the East Bay Regional Park District's efforts to improve public access and water quality in the Tilden Regional Park and Wildcat Creek watershed. The key products and services to be delivered through this grant include: removing a concrete weir, restoring 500 linear feet of creek bed...