Conservation District Projects Awarded for Nonpoint Source Mini-grant Program

Written by Shannon Wehinger on May 17, 2024. Posted in Mini-grant

Participants are pictured from McKean County Conservation District’s Erosion Control in our Forests Workshop. This project was funded through the 2023-24 Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention Mini-grant Program.

Pennsylvania’s county conservation districts were awarded nearly $37,000 for twenty-one pollution reduction projects in twenty counties. These projects will educate adults on water pollution prevention. The projects are funded through the Nonpoint Source (NPS) Pollution Prevention Educational Mini-Grant Program and will take place over the next year.

Click here to read the entire press release and here for a summary of funded projects. 

Financial and other support for this project is provided by the Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts, Inc. through a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection under Section 319 of the Clean Water Act, administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.