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Biden- Harris Administration announces $23.8 Million in Grants to Support
Chesapeake Bay Watershed Restoration Efforts
Grants advance measurable partnership progress towards 2025 goals of the
Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement
PHILADELPHIA (Sept. 4, 2024) – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) announced $23.8 million in Small Watershed grants to support
Chesapeake Bay Watershed restoration efforts. $11.6 million of the funding
awarded is funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and $9.3 via
regular annual appropriations. This program is currently administered by the
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) through a grant from EPA’s
Chesapeake Bay Program Office. The 56 grant awards will support water quality
improvement, habitat restoration, and community stewardship efforts in the
Chesapeake Bay watershed. In total, the grants will leverage $12.8 million in
matching contributions to generate a total conservation impact of $36.6
million.
The grants were awarded through the Small Watershed Grants (SWG) program, a
key funding mechanism of the federal-state Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP)
partnership designed to support projects within the Chesapeake Bay watershed
that promote voluntary, community-based efforts to protect and restore the
diverse and vital habitats of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributary rivers and
streams. Major funding for these awards is provided by the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, with additional support provided by the U.S. Department of
Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, U.S. Forest Service,
and Altria Group.
The SWG program is administered under NFWF’s Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund
(CBSF), in partnership with CBP and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA). The CBSF is an ongoing 25-year partnership between NFWF and other
federal and private funders that provides grant funding, technical assistance,
networking and information sharing programming in support of local,
on-the-ground conservation and restoration efforts to restore the Chesapeake
Bay watershed.
“Investments such as these are paramount to ensuring progress across the Bay
and in all sectors,” said EPA Regional Administrator Adam Ortiz. “We are
proud to work with our partners and fund these projects to make a difference
in the restoration of the Bay watershed.” 
“We are proud to fund these projects, which will support restoration of
ecosystems throughout the Bay watershed,” said Martha Shimkin, Director of
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Chesapeake Bay Program Office.
“From blue crabs to brook trout, we are focusing on restoring and conserving
our living resources that are both important to the local economy and our
region’s natural heritage. The work to protect and restore our waterways is
a true community effort and through these conservation projects, we can
continue to build on our current momentum.”
Examples of 2024 grant selectees:
Advancing the Legacy of Brook Trout Conservation in the Potomac Headwaters
(VA, WV)
Grantee: Trout Unlimited
Grant Amount:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . $997,500
Matching Funds:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . $447,000
Total Project Amount:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.$1,444,500
Restore brook trout habitat and install conservation practices on private and
public lands in the headwaters of the Potomac River in Virginia and West
Virginia. Project will restore
9 miles of riparian forest habitat, install 7.5 miles of livestock exclusion
fencing, and reconnect existing brook trout populations to 12 miles of
headwater habitat.
Camp Winslow Living Shoreline Restoration (MD)
Grantee: GreenTrust Alliance
Grant Amount:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . $117,500
Matching Funds:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . .$28,200
Total Project Amount:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
$145,700
Advance the design and permitting of approximately
4,400 linear feet of living shoreline on rapidly retreating forested shoreline
located on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay in St. Mary’s County,
Maryland. Project will advance efforts to implement a living shoreline along
the bay to protect riparian habitats and active aquaculture, and promote sand
accretion to eliminate the need to import sand.
Expanding Community Science to Advance Cross-Watershed Collaboration in Otsego
County (NY)
Grantee: Otsego County Conservation Association
Grant Amount:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . $144,500
Matching Funds:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . .$16,500
Total Project Amount:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
$161,000
Advance cross-watershed collaboration, assessments, and future restoration
efforts in Otsego County, New York. Project will create a culvert assessment
community science team, expand stream water quality monitoring teams, form a
lake water quality monitoring team, support capacity building efforts for
participating organizations, and collect valuable data and site-specific
information that will support future habitat restoration projects in the
county.
Congressional Cemetery Community-Based Stormwater Revitalization (DC)
Grantee: Anacostia Watershed Society
Grant Amount:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . .$72,300
Matching Funds:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . $0
Total Project Amount:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. .$72,300
Create an implementation-ready plan that will help manage the Congressional
Cemetery runoff and create a more resilient community space. Project will
continue the 2023 effort in implementing green infrastructure in the cemetery,
educating community members about the benefits of green infrastructure, and
allowing participants to apply their new knowledge to addressing stormwater
challenges currently facing the community.
Restoring Shoreline Habitats at Janosik Park in Laurel, Delaware
Grantee: Nanticoke Watershed Alliance
Grant Amount:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . $451,300
Matching Funds:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . $116,000
Total Project Amount:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
$567,300
Implement designs to stabilize a severely eroding shoreline and improve the
habitat along the Broad Creek at Janosik Park in Laurel, Delaware. Project
will restore nearly 600 feet or shoreline and reduce annual sediment pollution
by more than 60 tons.
Reconnecting and Restoring Brook Trout Habitat in the Pine Creek Watershed
(PA)
Grantee: Trout Unlimited
Grant Amount:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . $936,800
Matching Funds:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . $574,800
Total Project Amount:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.$1,511,600
Expand stronghold brook trout habitats along Lick Run in Pennsylvania’s Pine
Creek watershed by replacing three failing, undersized culverts that are
current barriers to aquatic organism passage, reducing nonpoint source
sediment pollution by improving dirt and gravel roads, and using strategic
wood addition to enhance habitat on
0.75 miles of Deer Lick Hollow, a tributary to Lick Run. Project will open 7.5
miles of upstream habitat critical for brook trout.
Accelerating Living Shoreline Restoration in Virginia’s Northern Neck and
Middle Peninsula
Grantee: Friends of the Rappahannock
Grant Amount:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . $755,500
Matching Funds:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . $536,800
Total Project Amount:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.$1,292,300
Restore 1 mile of shoreline on Virginia’s Northern Neck to address nutrient
and sediment loss, coastal wetland restoration and enhancement, and community
resilience. Project will support design and installation of 40 living
shoreline projects in conjunction with the Virginia Conservation Assistance
Program.
A complete list of the 2024 Chesapeake Bay Small Watershed Grants recipients
is available here.
For more information about the Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund or to download
the 2024 Chesapeake Bay Innovative Nutrient and Sediment Reduction and Small
Watershed Grants Slates, visit www.nfwf.org/chesapeake.
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