Green to Go Green
By: Nate Potter
Updated: April 6, 2010
HARRISBURG - The Department of Environmental Protection has announced more than $16.5 million in Growing Greener funding for projects that will clean state waterways, restore stream banks, prevent flooding, reclaim mine-scarred lands and reduce pollution.
Over the past seven years, Pennsylvania's Growing Greener program has delivered more than $237 million to local communities to improve the quality of waterways, address serious environmental problems at mine sites and make communities more livable.
The funding includes $12.6 million in Watershed and Flood Protection grants and $3.9 million in federal funding for Non-Point Source Pollution Control grants.
Grants range in size from $6,145 to the Cameron County Conservation District to address invasive species and repair riparian buffers along the Sinnemahoning Creek to $664,500 to the Schuylkill Headwaters Association to design and construct a system to treat the 1.7 million gallon-per-day discharge of mine drainage from the Mary D Borehole into the Schuylkill River.
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