Boquet River Association, Inc.

Boquet River Association, Inc., a New York-based non-profit organization, operates as a sub-recipient on three federal environmental grants issued by the Environmental Protection Agency Region 1 through the New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission since May 2025. The organization holds no prime federal contracts and does not sit on government-wide acquisition vehicles; all of its recent federal engagement is subrecipient work on habitat restoration and aquatic-passage projects in the Boquet River and tributary system in upstate New York.

Boquet River Association's federal footprint is concentrated in riverine restoration and fish passage work. Recent subrecipient grants total $701 thousand across three awards. The organization completed work to remove a defunct fish weir and adjacent bridge abutments that disrupted fish passage on the main stem of the Boquet River along County Route 8 in Elizabethtown (awarded March 6, 2026). In parallel, BRASS led a floodplain restoration project on Roaring Brook in Elizabethtown, New York, a tributary that experienced large-scale flood damage and habitat degradation in July 2024, involving strategic riparian native-plant restoration in partnership with the Elizabethtown Soil and Water Conservation District and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (awarded March 24, 2026). An earlier award (May 23, 2025) supported removal of barriers to aquatic organism passage on Cold Brook, a tributary identified as important salmon spawning habitat; the effort was part of a multi-agency coalition including the Town of Willsboro, Essex County Department of Public Works, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Nature Conservancy, and the Lake Champlain Basin Program.

All three awards flow through the New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission as the prime grantee, and all three target EPA Region 1's jurisdiction. Activity has been minimal and recent — one award in 2025, two awards in 2026 — with no indication of future pipeline or competitive federal contracting posture.