The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $748,000 Project Grant to the City of Toledo, Ohio under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) program. The funding will be used to increase public access to a recently naturally-restored 59-acre waterfront area along the lower Maumee River near Lake Erie in the Maumee River Area of Concern (AOC). Key project activities include constructing a 1-mile loop trail, paved entrance drive, small parking lot,...
This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5, under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469), provides $500,000.00 in funding to Cleveland Metroparks. The funding will support a project to modify an existing fish barrier and replace it with a rock ramp or similar solution to improve fish passage and stream and riparian habitat and resiliency within the Cuyahoga River Area of Concern (AOC). Key activities include...
This $3,026,300 federal project grant awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) will fund environmental restoration activities in Fostoria, Ohio. The grant supports the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) in reconnecting a decommissioned drinking water reservoir to the adjacent stream, excavating the reservoir to increase floodplain storage, and constructing armored inflow and...
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 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 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...
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 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 Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) provides $699,000.00 in funding to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Office of Coastal Management (ODNR OCM) to monitor wetland sites within the Lake Erie watershed in the Maumee River basin. The activities will involve sampling soils in multiple wetland restoration projects to measure parameters that predict phosphate retention and...