The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $500,000 Project Grant under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA) to implement a technology assistance program. The program will demonstrate how advances in automated drainage water management (ADWM) systems can benefit water quality in Lake Erie by reducing nutrient loading, as well as provide farming benefits through improved conditions....
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $1,750,000 Project Grant to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA) under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA #66.469) program. The grant funds will be used to demonstrate technologies for reducing nutrient loading from nonpoint sources and addressing harmful algal blooms in western Lake Erie. Specifically, Ohio EPA will work with partners Maumee Watershed Alliance and The Ohio State University to implement the...
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 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 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) a $2,884,871 Project Grant under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) to address agricultural runoff that contributes to harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie. This funding will support two restoration projects in the Western Lake Erie Basin: The first project in Allen County will relocate a 2,200-linear foot ditch and add 2,400-linear feet of a 2-stage...
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...
This $500,000 Project Grant award, funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469), aims to demonstrate the potential of Electric Cell Lysis (ECL) technology as an effective mitigation strategy for nutrient runoff and harmful algal blooms (HABs) in the Western Lake Erie watershed. The Ohio EPA, in partnership with the Cleveland Water Alliance (CWA), will pilot the ECL technology in three dairy manure lagoon...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469), funds the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Office of Coastal Management (ODNR OCM) to monitor wetland sites within the Lake Erie watershed and Maumee River basin. The $699,000 award, active from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026, will support sampling soils at multiple wetland restoration projects to validate...
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 Ohio Energy And Advanced Manufacturing Center Inc. was awarded a $261,522 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Resources Conservation Service under the Soil and Water Conservation federal grant program (CFDA 10.902). The grant will fund the Agricultural Runoff Monitoring Project Using Automated, Mobile Sampling Platforms to Evaluate Treatment Methods to Minimize Pollutants That Threaten Water Quality in the Great Lakes. Specifically, Ohio Energy And...