This Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Beach Monitoring and Notification Program Implementation Grants (CFDA 66.472) provides $216,000.00 to the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) to fund its beach monitoring program for the upcoming swimming season. The award supports ODH's efforts to monitor water quality at designated recreational beaches in Ohio and notify the public when water quality exceeds bacteria thresholds, consistent with the...
The Ohio Department of Health was awarded a $229,369 Project Grant from the United States Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 under the Beach Monitoring and Notification Program Implementation Grants (CFDA 66.472). The grant will fund the recipient's efforts to monitor water quality and notify the public at designated recreational beaches in Ohio from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2023. Specifically, the grant will support the recipient's beach monitoring program for the upcoming...
The Ohio Department of Health (ODH) received a $238,000 Project Grant award from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 under the Beach Monitoring and Notification Program Implementation Grants (CFDA 66.472) program. ODH will evaluate all 64 public and semi-public beaches along Ohio's Lake Erie shoreline, rank them by tier, and monitor tier 1 beaches weekly. ODH will make monitoring data available to the public through its Healthy Beaches website and transmit data to EPA by...
The Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 awarded a $245,000 Project Grant to the Illinois Department of Public Health under the Beach Monitoring and Notification Program Implementation Grants (CFDA 66.472). The grant will fund the recipient's beach monitoring program for the upcoming swimming season, including meeting performance criteria established by the Federal Beach Act to remain eligible for beach grants and consistent with national guidance. Specifically, the grant will support the...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 provides $232,000.00 to fund the Illinois Department of Public Health's Beach Monitoring and Notification Program for the upcoming 2024-2025 swimming season. The funding supports the department's efforts to monitor water quality at designated recreational beaches in Illinois and notify the public when water exceeds thresholds for fecal indicator bacteria or other pathogens. Key activities include water...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 provides $203,000 to the Minnesota Department of Health's (MN DOH) Financial Management Division to fund its Beach Monitoring and Notification Program for the 2024-2025 swimming season. The award supports MN DOH's efforts to monitor water quality at designated recreational beaches in Minnesota and notify the public when bacteria levels exceed safe thresholds, in alignment with the requirements of the federal...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $247,000 Project Grant under the Beach Monitoring and Notification Program Implementation Grants (CFDA 66.472) to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (ODEQ) to implement the Oregon Beach Monitoring Program for the upcoming swimming season. The grant will fund ODEQ's efforts to collect and test water samples from designated recreational beaches in Oregon for bacteria, and to notify the public when water quality standards are...
The Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 awarded the Minnesota Department of Health a $228,000 Project Grant under the Beach Monitoring and Notification Program Implementation Grants (CFDA 66.472) to support water quality monitoring and public notification efforts at recreational beaches in Minnesota from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022. Specifically, the state will collect and analyze water samples from 36 designated beaches on a semi-weekly or weekly basis, depending on beach tier...
This Project Grant from the Environmental Protection Agency Region 10, under the Beach Monitoring and Notification Program Implementation Grants (CFDA 66.472), provides $246,639 to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality to collect water samples from designated recreational beaches in Oregon from October 1, 2021 to March 31, 2023. The samples will be tested for bacteriological water quality and the public will be notified when waters exceed applicable standards or are safe for swimming,...
This EPA Region 10 Project Grant award, funded through the Beach Monitoring and Notification Program Implementation Grants (CFDA 66.472), provides $236,257 to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (ODEQ) to operate a beach monitoring and public notification program for the 2024-2026 swimming seasons. The key activities funded under this award include: monitoring water quality at designated recreational beaches in Oregon for pathogens, notifying the public of sample results and health...