{"id":21773,"date":"2021-02-12T17:09:41","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T17:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=21773"},"modified":"2021-02-12T17:09:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T17:09:41","slug":"thirty-eight-pollution-prevention-projects-funded-through-nps-mini-grant-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=21773","title":{"rendered":"Thirty-eight Pollution Prevention Projects Funded through NPS Mini-grant Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Chester-NPS-The-Gardensmaller.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Chester-NPS-The-Gardensmaller-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21774\" width=\"229\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Chester-NPS-The-Gardensmaller-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Chester-NPS-The-Gardensmaller-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Chester-NPS-The-Gardensmaller-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Chester-NPS-The-Gardensmaller.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em>Chester County Conservation District&#8217;s Municipal Workshop project (funded in the 2020-21 NPS mini-grant round) includes a rain garden.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Pennsylvania\u2019s county conservation districts were awarded over $60,000. With this funding, thirty-eight pollution reduction projects will take place in twenty-seven counties. These projects promote water pollution prevention activities through the Non-point Source (NPS) Pollution Prevention Educational Mini-Grant Program. The projects will take place through May 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Funding for the grants, up to $2,000 each, is provided through the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection under Section 319 of the Clean Water Act, administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. A description of the projects funded in the past is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacd.org\">www.pacd.org<\/a> under the Education tab.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tinyurl.com\/2021-22NPS\">here<\/a> for the list with summaries of 2021-22 NPS Pollution Prevention Educational Mini-grant projects and <a href=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/NPS-Mini-grant-Recipients-2021-22-Round-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> for the press release.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania\u2019s county conservation districts were awarded over $60,000. With this funding, thirty-eight pollution reduction projects will take place in twenty-seven counties. These projects promote water pollution prevention activities through the Non-point Source (NPS) Pollution Prevention Educational Mini-Grant Program. The projects will take place through May 2022. Funding for the grants, up to $2,000 each, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mini-grant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}