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Clean Water Action Plan Nonpoint Source Program Grant
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Under the Federal Clean Water Act Section §319(h), grant funds are available to reduce or eliminate water quality impairments that are associated nonpoint source pollution.Support Type:
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Funds are pending Congressional approval and vary.Funding Range:
$30,000 to $300,000. The award may cover no more than 60% of total project costs, so the nonfederal share must be at least 40%.Restoration Activity:
Implementation projects (involving in-the-ground construction to reduce nonpoint source pollution), watershed assessment and planning, education projects, demonstration projects (showing the overall effectiveness of an adopted approach in solving a particular water quality problem). Stream restoration, wetland creation or restoration, and riparian buffers.Eligibility:
Local and State entities including county and municipal agencies, Soil Conservation Districts, State agencies, universities<< Back to WRA Directory
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Featured Fellow
Nina Santos is a Ph.D. student at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. For her dissertation, she is focused on small shrimp-like crustaceans called mysids – an understudied yet important part of many estuarine and coastal food webs.
Featured Research Project
Developing a habitat model for mysids, an important link in Chesapeake Bay food webs
Mysids are important mesozooplankton prey for many species of fish in Chesapeake Bay and are an important link in transferring energy from lower to upper trophic levels. Mysids also serve as biological vectors for benthic-pelagic coupling due to their diel vertical migration and omnivorous prey-switching behavior, which makes mysids important regulators of food web architecture. Despite their central role in coastal food webs, surprisingly little is known about mysid ecology and dynamics in Chesapeake Bay.
Chesapeake Quarterly Magazine
Restoration Takes Root: Living Shorelines for Changing Coasts
