(AGENPARL) – mer 16 ottobre 2024 Issued: Oct 16, 2024 (5:48pm EDT)
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EPA awards $14.4 million to improve local water quality, address runoff
pollution across the Mid-Atlantic
PHILADELPHIA (October 16, 2024) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) announced $14.4 million to improve the health of local waterbodies in
Delaware ($1.3M), the District of Columbia ($1M), Maryland ($2.3M),
Pennsylvania ($4.8M), Virginia ($3.2M), and West Virginia ($1.9M). This annual
allocation is part of the Clean Water Act’s Section 319 grant program and is
intended to curb nonpoint source pollution (NPS) which occurs when runoff from
rain or snow carries pollutants into waterways such as rivers, wetlands, and
groundwater.   
Because NPS does not come from a single source, pipe, or facility, it is
typically more difficult to address. Under Section 319, states, territories
and tribes receive grant money from EPA that supports a wide variety of
activities such as technical and financial assistance, education, training,
demonstration projects and monitoring to assess the success of specific
nonpoint source implementation projects.   
Announced in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, EPA Mid-Atlantic Regional
Administrator Adam Ortiz highlighted the significant impact this funding has
had since Congress enacted the program in 1987. In a joint press conference
with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP), Ortiz
and state and local leaders discussed the success of past efforts before
unveiling DEP’s most recently selected projects and announcing the newly
awarded $4.8 million grant package to Pennsylvania.  
“Nearly 40 years ago, our elected leaders understood the importance of
addressing things like runoff from farms and urban areas, but what they
couldn’t have know back then is exactly how important these grants would
become,” said Adam Ortiz, EPA’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Administrator.
“Because of the strategic and intentional efforts to address this type of
pollution, Pennsylvania is improving not only it’s local water quality, but
also that of downstream waters like the Chesapeake Bay and Delaware River
watersheds.”  
Using last year’s Section 319 grant, Pennsylvania selected 12 projects that
are expected to reduce runoff, stabilize stream banks, and fund planning that
will make for efficient implementation moving forward. Examples include:  
Doc Fritchey Chapter of Trout Unlimited, Lebanon County: The project proposes
to restore a floodplain, create five acres of wetlands, and install more than
10 acres of riparian buffers.  
Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Synder County: This proposal includes the design
and implementation of 100 new forested riparian buffer acres and the
continuation of a farm incentives program that will help pay for new best
management practices via vouchers. 
Lancaster County Conservation District, Lancaster County: This project will
restore a stream channel in the Conowingo Creek and protect an in-stream
aquatic habitat. 
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