Project Grant 22DG11094200024

The Huron-Clinton Metropolitan Authority will partner with the Wyandot of Anderdon Nation to implement green infrastructure measures at Lake Erie Metropark and the Six Points site in Rockwood, Michigan under a $1.1 million Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 Project Grant awarded May 1, 2022 for completion by April 30, 2025. Funded through the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, the award will support construction of 16 naturalized swales and two rain gardens at Lake Erie Metropark totaling...

The Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper will implement green infrastructure practices across a 2.23-acre site along Gill Creek in Niagara Falls, NY through a $1.23 million Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 Project Grant awarded under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) CFDA 66.469 program. Activities include constructing an infiltration trench, floodplain benches, exfiltration systems, and restoring fringe wetlands and natural areas to capture 2.3 million gallons of stormwater runoff...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) provides $191,320.00 to the Lake County Soil and Water Conservation District (LCSWCD) in Minnesota to conduct feasibility studies and design plans for restoration projects on the Beaver and Baptism Rivers. The goal is to address significant erosion and habitat degradation in these Minnesota Lake Superior North Shore streams that provide...

The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians received a $300,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative program (CFDA #66.469). The funding will support restoration of 0.65 miles of the re-meandered Dowagiac River on tribal land, restoring riparian vegetation and installing erosion prevention measures. Outcomes will include restoration of 1.3 total river channel miles and 55.3 acres of wetlands. The project aims to remove up to...

This Project Grant award for $3,286,422 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grants Program (CFDA 66.616) aims to interrupt and redress long-standing environmental injustices related to wetland degradation and wild rice loss in tribal communities. Key activities include: Building capacity for tribal communities in the Lake Winnebago watershed to participate in water and wetland governance, integrating scientific data...

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...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $300,000 project grant to the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) program. The grant will fund a 4-year effort by the tribe to provide traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) education to the Akwesasne community about traditional practices in the St. Lawrence River Area of Concern. The tribe will host a minimum of 40 educational workshops related to ecological activities,...

This U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Project Grant award for $127,090 under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 15.662) will support efforts by the Great Lakes Commission (GLC) to understand how state and tribal agencies in the Great Lakes region organize and fund their aquatic invasive species (AIS) management programs. The key objectives are to: 1) identify the key components and functions of AIS programs, and 2) summarize the different models used by jurisdictions for program...

The Alliance of Rouge Communities (ARC) will restore one acre of wetland habitat on the campus of Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Michigan under a $810,000 Project Grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5. The wetland restoration activities are funded through October 1, 2022 to December 31, 2025 under the EPA's Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) program (CFDA #66.469). Specifically, ARC will address three Beneficial Use Impairments in the Rouge...

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...