EPA Awards $17 Million in Grants To Projects for Reducing Great Lakes Algae

摘要

The Environmental Protection Agency awarded 14 grants totaling more than $17 million to fund projects designed to combat algae growth in the Great Lakes. The grants will go to "critical projects to prevent soil erosion and reduce phosphorus runoff that contributes to algae growth in the Great Lakes," Great Lakes National Program Manager Susan Hedman said in a March 26 statement. The largest grant-$4.2 million-will go to Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance Inc. to implement conservation practices such as stream buffering and planting cover crops in key sections of the Lower Fox River watershed to reduce nutrient runoff and soil erosion affecting Green Bay and Lake Michigan.