{"id":23330,"date":"2022-01-28T14:45:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T14:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=23330"},"modified":"2022-01-28T14:46:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T14:46:36","slug":"nineteen-growing-greener-grants-awarded-to-conservation-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=23330","title":{"rendered":"Nineteen Growing Greener Grants Awarded to Conservation Districts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahs.dep.pa.gov\/NewsRoomPublic\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DEPlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19308\" width=\"215\" height=\"45\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DEPlogo.jpg 800w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DEPlogo-300x63.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DEPlogo-768x162.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) recently announced projects to clean up waters in the state&#8217;s northwest and southeast regions through DEP\u2019s Growing Greener Plus program.<\/p>\n<p>Statewide, more than $18 million was awarded to fund over 60 projects to clean up waters. Grantees have up to three years from the award date to implement their projects.<\/p>\n<p>Nineteen of the 65 projects funded in the 2021 Growing Greener Grant round were awarded to conservation districts. This is 29.2% of the total number of projects funded. Of the $18,222,967 in Growing Greener funds awarded, $4,586,041 went to conservation districts. This is 25.2% of the total amount awarded.<\/p>\n<p>Projects announced so far include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Armstrong Conservation District, Mahoning-Redbank Creek Ag BMP Grant, $294,061<\/li>\n<li>Columbia County Conservation District, Town of Bloomsburg Kinney Run Watershed Project, $245,000<\/li>\n<li>Erie County Conservation District, PA VinES Program (Vested in Environmental Sustainability) in the Lake Erie Watershed, $249,500<\/li>\n<li>Jefferson County Conservation District, Rattlesnake Creek Stream Improvement Project, $276,150<\/li>\n<li>McKean County Conservation District, Upper Allegheny Ag. BMP Project, $382,492<\/li>\n<li>Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts (PACD)\n<ul>\n<li>PACD Agriculture Plan Reimbursement Program, to help farmers statewide develop agricultural plans for their operations, $500,000<\/li>\n<li>PACD Engineering Technical Assistance Program, to provide statewide engineering and soils technical assistance to entities developing or implementing a watershed assessment, watershed restoration plan, or watershed protection plan. Program staff are based out of four regional offices and cover all river basins throughout the state, $2,047,769<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GGStats.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GGStats.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23332\" width=\"437\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GGStats.jpg 570w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GGStats-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Conservation district projects funded through Growing Greener will continue to be highlighted as they are announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) recently announced projects to clean up waters in the state&#8217;s northwest and southeast regions through DEP\u2019s Growing Greener Plus program. Statewide, more than $18 million was awarded to fund over 60 projects to clean up waters. Grantees have up to three years from the award date to implement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23330","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=23330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}