{"id":26369,"date":"2024-10-18T17:29:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T17:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=26369"},"modified":"2024-10-18T17:29:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T17:29:34","slug":"seven-conservation-districts-receive-319-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=26369","title":{"rendered":"Seven Conservation Districts Receive 319 Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24929 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/DEPlogo-300x63.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"63\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/DEPlogo-300x63.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/DEPlogo-768x162.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/DEPlogo.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has awarded more than $3.4 million in grants to projects to improve water quality and fish and wildlife habitat throughout Pennsylvania\u2019s part of the Chesapeake Bay watershed and other watersheds.<\/p>\r\n<p>The 12 awards are funded by the Section 319 Grant program from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and selected by DEP.<\/p>\r\n<p>The following conservation districts and their partners received grants:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Bucks County Conservation District: $224,830<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Huntingdon County Conservation District: $80,000<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Lancaster County Conservation District: $390,625<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Schuylkill Conservation District (2 projects): $273,000 and $214,000<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Snyder County Conservation District: $56,968<\/li>\r\n\t<li>York County Conservation District: $184,579\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahs.dep.pa.gov\/NewsRoomPublic\/articleviewer.aspx?id=22478&amp;typeid=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> to read more about the projects.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has awarded more than $3.4 million in grants to projects to improve water quality and fish and wildlife habitat throughout Pennsylvania\u2019s part of the Chesapeake Bay watershed and other watersheds. The 12 awards are funded by the Section 319 Grant program from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26369","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=26369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}