Nearshore Health and Nonpoint Source Pollution
Specifically, this project, The Cuyahoga County Surface Water Improvement Grant Program, will enhance nonpoint source pollution management; stream and wetland restoration; and, innovative stormwater management and green infrastructure demonstrations in Lake Erie tributaries which fall in the targeted geographic area of Cuyahoga County, Ohio. This project proposes to leverage $1 million in GLRI funding...
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Specifically, the project will create significantly enhanced native fish, bird and plant habitats in Western Lake Erie through the beneficial reuse of dredged sediment. The Toledo Harbor Sediment Management Plan (SMP) will also be finalized, resulting in detailed plans for management of all material dredged from the Toledo Harbor shipping channels.
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In this project, sanitary surveys will be conducted at all impaired beaches in Northern Wisconsin to identify pollution sources and drive mitigation. This effort covers approximately one-half of the State of Wisconsin and coupled with its allied project (Grant Number 00E00586-0) will cover the entire Great Lakes shoreline of...
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In this project, sanitary surveys will be conducted at all impaired beaches in Southeast Wisconsin to identify pollution sources and drive mitigation. This effort covers approximately one-half of the State of Wisconsin and coupled with its allied project (Grant Number: 00E00587-0) will cover the entire Great Lakes shoreline of...
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This project will focus on buffer strip installation in key sections of the Baird Creek watershed to reduce agriculture nutrient, sediment and pesticide loading to Baird Creek and ultimately the Lower Fox River and Bay of Green Bay. The project will enhance and protect critical wetland habitat in an area of Northeast WI that...
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Bob Perciasepe, Deputy Administrator, US Environmental Protection Agency President Obama has made restoring and protecting the Great Lakes a national priority. To meet the goals we’ve set the President proposed and Congress approved hundreds of millions of dollars for community-based projects to revitalize and protect the Great Lakes. These investments we are making will...
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Predicting harmful algal blooms (HABs) in the Great Lakes is now a reality as NOAA’s Center of Excellence for Great Lakes and Human Health (CEGLHH) launches the Lake Erie Experimental HAB Forecast System for the second summer. A nowcast and forecast depicting current and future (48 hour prediction) locations of blooms, as well as...
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Grant finalists selected for innovative projects totaling over $160M U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Great Lakes National Program Office today invited 270 finalists to submit applications for a total of $161.450,000 in competitive grant funding under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI). In response to its November 2009 request for grant proposals (RFP), EPA received...
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Eight States to Receive Funding to Support Administration’s Great Lakes Restoration Initiative St. Paul, MN, May 10, 2010 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced funding to help clean up the Great Lakes as part of the Administration’s Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) will provide financial and technical resources...
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Current water quality monitoring has a time delay of up to 48 hours between sample collection and water quality reporting. This may lead to swimming at coastal beaches when bacteria levels pose health threats or unregulated toxic algal blooms occur. Predictive models enable environmental and public health officials to notify the public of expected...
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