Update: Due to the Federal Government lapse in appropriations in December 2018 and January 2019, the proposal deadline has been extended to February 12, 2019.
The NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office announced the grant opportunity to support environmental education in the watershed; proposals are due by February 20, 2019.
Roughly $2,606,000 will fund 24 projects in four states around the Chesapeake Bay watershed--including 13 new projects in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia.
Watch historical dam removal project’s big boom, letting water flow through for the first time in a century, improving community safety and fish migration.
NOAA, American Rivers, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, and others celebrated the beginning of the most significant dam removal on the Patapsco River, which will soon be open for the first time in a century.