The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation will give $295,493 in Alaska Clean Water Actions grants. The ACWA partnership between DEC and the Departments of Fish and Game and Natural Resources awarded 14 grants to assist the state in achieving its clean water goals. The grants focus efforts on waters in greatest need of protection and restoration.
Many of the projects awarded through these grants help to build environmentally friendly infrastructure. Haines has been working for a number of years on ways to better manage snow. The green infrastructure projects being funded will help ensure that the pollution often captured in snow does not reach Alaska’s waters.
ACWA grants are balanced between projects that protect at-risk waters and projects that restore waters considered polluted or impaired. The grant funds come from a combination of federal water quality funds and matching funds provided by the project grant recipient.
