The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency was awarded a $450,000 project grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) federal grant program (CFDA #66.469) to improve degraded benthic communities and fish habitat in Tenmile Creek in Berkey, Ohio. Specifically, the Ohio EPA will work with Partners for Clean Streams, Inc. on a stream restoration project to stabilize approximately 600 feet of eroding streambanks, restore 900 feet...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 awarded a $1,357,466 Project Grant under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA), who will partner with the Ohio Lake Erie Commission (OLEC) to develop and implement the Lake Erie Environmental Justice Grant Program. The program aims to restore the environment in historically overburdened and underserved communities within Ohio's Lake Erie watershed....
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency will implement the $311,000 Fish and Benthos Improvements with Urban Chloride Reductions Project under a Project Grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469). The project aims to develop a three-phased approach to reducing chloride levels in the Maumee Area of Concern and implement the first phase, helping to restore biological communities impaired by degraded benthos and fish populations. The Ohio...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 awarded a $1,500,000 Project Grant to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA) under the EPA's Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469). The grant funding will support the retrofit of five drainage ditches within the Maumee River watershed in northwest Ohio to create floodplain benches. This project aims to increase water retention and sediment deposition, effectively slowing and capturing...
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency was awarded a $1,450,000 Project Grant from the Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) to implement agricultural conservation practices in the Western Lake Erie Basin from March 2023 through March 2026. Specifically, the Ohio EPA will partner with the Fulton, Ottawa, and Williams Soil and Water Conservation Districts to reduce nutrient runoff through practices such as grassed and cascading...
The City of Oregon, Ohio will receive $1.344 million under a Project Grant award from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5's Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) program. The funding will support a stream restoration project at the Oregon Recreational Complex Area of Concern in the Maumee River watershed from July 2021 through December 2024. Specifically, the City will stabilize 5,300 linear feet of eroding stream banks and install riparian buffers...
The Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 awarded a $774,074 Project Grant under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) federal grant program to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency on March 29, 2021. The grant will support implementation of six non-point source pollution reduction projects in the Maumee Watershed by the Ohio EPA Division of Surface Water in partnership with local governments, soil and water conservation districts, and The Ohio State...
The City of Akron, Ohio will receive $650,000 through a Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative federal grant program (CFDA 66.469). The funding will support the completion of designs to remove lowhead dams along 1.4 miles of shoreline along the Cuyahoga River. Removal of the dams will restore and enhance fish habitat in the river, addressing two beneficial use impairments under the Cuyahoga...
This $1,600,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) supports the State of Ohio Office of Budget and Management, doing business as the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA), and its partner local governments in Lucas, Defiance, and Ottawa Counties. The project aims to increase the ability of ditches and streams to intercept runoff and reduce the delivery of nutrients...
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy will receive $149,025 from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative federal grant program (CFDA #66.469) to expand its "From Students to Stewards Initiative" program. This program will award grant opportunities to K-12 schools in Michigan to integrate place-based education into their curriculums focused on the Great Lakes. The goal is to help close the Great Lakes literacy gap and...