The Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds announced it has scheduled a Spring and Fall round for grant applications to support watershed restoration projects.

Spring

Letters of intent for the spring round are due February 15. If a letter of intent is approved, applications are invited to complete a full application and the Foundation will announce its decision by March 17.

Fall

Letters of intent for the Fall round are due August 13. If a letter of intent is approved, applications are invited to complete a full application and the Foundation will announce its decision by September 17.

The Foundation invests in local efforts to protect healthy, natural streams, to clean up pollution and to restore degraded wildlife habitat and are a source of matching funds for local, state and federal grants.

The Foundation’s primary service area is from the Ohio border to the Susquehanna River’s main stem.

Click Here for all the details.   Click Here for the application portal.

The Foundation has provided over $13.3 million to support 1,474 watershed projects that have improved 732 miles of streams, installed 511,261 feet of riparian buffers and 92,758 feet of natural stream channel design. Read more here.

For information on past projects and current objectives, visit the Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds website.   Questions should be directed to: projectwater@pennsylvaniawatersheds.org or call 814-669-4244.

Other Grants

Visit the PA Environment Digest Grants & Awards webpage for deadlines on applying for other grants.

How Clean Is Your Stream?

DEP’s Interactive Report Viewer allows you to zoom in on your own stream or watershed to find out how clean your stream is or if it has impaired water quality using the latest information in the draft 2020 Water Quality Report.

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[Posted: January 4, 2021]

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