EPA Awards $55,600 to Promote Deckers Creek
Restoration
Friends of Deckers Creek in W.V.
Receives EPA Urban Waters Small Grant
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (August 20,
2012) – The U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency today joined city, state and non-profit officials in announcing
$55,600 in federal funding to help pave the way for cleaning up mine pollution
affecting Deckers Creek and highlighting the economic benefits of creek
restoration.
“Today we begin a new chapter in the history
of Deckers Creek – one holding great promise for both the health of the creek
and the city’s economy,” said EPA Regional Administrator Shawn M. Garvin. “This
project clarifies the connection between economic investment and resource
restoration, while generating the
necessary information for treating polluted water.”
The
funds will also help initiate a public education campaign to advise business
owners and the city’s development community about the economic potential of
restoring Deckers Creek, and forming a community partnership to take the next
steps in the process.
The
grant was awarded to Friends of Deckers Creek, a community-based non-profit
watershed group working to clean up Deckers Creek, a tributary of the
Monongahela River that flows from Preston County into Monongalia County, W.Va.
The creek is impacted by acid mine drainage and other pollution
issues.
EPA’s Urban Waters program
helps cities unleash the potential of their waterways and land around
them. The funding supports communities’
efforts to access, improve and benefit from their urban waters and surrounding
land.
Information on EPA’s Urban Waters program: http://www.epa.gov/urbanwaters/index.html.
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