Project Grant 00T95401

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 9 awarded a $5,826,000 Project Grant to the San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI) under the Geographic Programs - San Francisco Bay Water Quality Improvement Fund (CFDA 66.126). The 4-year project aims to: (1) develop strategies to increase beneficial reuse of up to 45,000 tons of flood control channel sediment for habitat restoration; (2) implement pilot projects to restore several acres of tidal marsh and creek habitat; (3) develop visions...

The Environmental Protection Agency Region 9 awarded the State Coastal Conservancy a $8 million Project Grant under the Geographic Programs - San Francisco Bay Water Quality Improvement Fund (CFDA 66.126) to implement the Southern Eden Landing Restoration Project. The project will restore approximately 1,300 acres of tidal marsh habitat and enhance 800 acres of managed ponds in the Southern Eden Landing area of San Francisco Bay through levee breaching, pond connectivity improvements, and...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $1,541,128 Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration (CFDA 15.614) Project Grant to the State Coastal Conservancy to implement the Lower College of Marin Corte Madera Creek Habitat Restoration Project. This project will restore approximately 1.5 acres of aquatic, tidal, transition zone, and riparian upland habitat in the San Francisco Bay Estuary through the partial removal of a concrete channel and the restoration of native habitats....

The State Coastal Conservancy (SCC) of California was awarded a $1,226,475 grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Program (CFDA 15.614). The 3-year grant will fund the restoration and enhancement of approximately 4 acres of threatened coastal wetlands along the Tomales Bay shoreline in Marin County, California. Key project activities include removing 2,000 cubic yards of fill, reconstructing a historic wetland slough,...

San Francisco Bay Coastal Wetlands Revegetation Project Phase III The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) awarded $1.452 million to the State Coastal Conservancy under the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration program (CFDA 15.614) to continue the San Francisco Bay Coastal Wetlands Revegetation Project Phase III from January 1, 2026, through December 31, 2027. This project delivers invasive species removal and native habitat restoration services across the San Francisco Bay...

This $4,142,968 Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 9 under the Geographic Programs - San Francisco Bay Water Quality Improvement Fund (CFDA 66.126) supports a collaborative effort led by the Fairfield-Suisun Sewer District (FSSD) and the San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI) to accelerate the implementation of nature-based shoreline adaptation solutions in the San Francisco Bay. The key activities funded through this grant include: 1) Developing a...

This $2.7 million project grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration program (CFDA 15.614) will support restoration and enhancement of 159 acres of coastal wetlands and riparian habitats at Coyote Hills Regional Park in Fremont, California. The California Coastal Conservancy and East Bay Regional Park District will directly restore and enhance over 14.5 acres of wetlands and 144.5 acres of grasslands,...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through its National Fish Habitat Partnership (CFDA 15.686) program, awarded a $100,000 Cooperative Agreement to Delmarva R C & D Inc., a non-profit conservation organization, to restore degraded salt marshes in the Maryland Coastal Bays. The project aims to improve fish habitat, water quality, and coastal resiliency by reversing human impacts on at least 114 acres of salt marsh. Key restoration techniques include sediment addition to nourish degraded...

This $12,000,000 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 fund the California State Coastal Conservancy to facilitate the beneficial reuse of dredged sediment from federal navigation channels for wetland restoration in the San Francisco Bay. Specifically, the Conservancy will enter a Memorandum of Understanding with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)...

The State Coastal Conservancy was awarded a $1.5 million Project Grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Program to complete Phase I of the Castroville to the Coast Project. Phase I involves acquiring 24 acres of agricultural land along the Salinas Reclamation Ditch and Tembladero Slough floodplain for future restoration. The project aims to provide flood attenuation, sea level rise resilience, water quality improvement,...