Skip to main content

Meramec Funding Sources

Urban Waters Small Grants

Urban Waters Small Grants

Aug. 1, 2019
By EPA

Story summary:

  • The EPA Urban Waters Program is helping grow local businesses and enhancing educational, recreational, social, and employment opportunities by investing in healthy and accessible urban waters.  

Quick Facts

EPA’s Mission
Protect human health and the environment 

Grant’s Mission
Help local residents and their organizations, particularly those in underserved communities, restore their urban waters in ways that also benefit community and economic revitalization. 

Eligibility
States, local governments, tribes, public and private universities and colleges, public and private nonprofits 

What do they fund?
Community engagement and education, restoration projects, studies and planning, citizen science 

Amount of funding
Up to $60,000 

Funding length
TBD 

Match
TBD 

Timing
Competed and awarded every 2 years

Next scheduled - 2020

About

Urban Waters Small Grants encourage applicants to work with diverse partners in order to generate community-driven solutions and to connect the intrinsic value of urban waters with improved livability and economic health in the community.

Projects must meet four program objectives:

  1. Address local water quality related to urban runoff
  2. Provide additional community benefits
  3. Engage underserved communities
  4. Foster diverse partnerships

 Project Examples

Lexington, KY, University of Kentucky

This project provided outreach and education to grade school students, teachers and residents on water quality issues, science careers and urban stream restoration. Students and residents participated in a stream restoration project in a city park that includes a 12-mile streamside walking/biking path.

St. Louis, MO Southern Illinois, University – Edwardsville

This project evaluated the effectiveness of site scale green infrastructure facilities on reducing flows into combined sewers, and developed protocol for community outreach and public education on green infrastructure.

More Info/Resources

Consult your community’s attorney and financial advisors prior to moving forward with any of these funding options. Any reference in this website to any person, or organization, or activities, products, or services related to such person or organization, or any linkages from this website to the website of another party, do not constitute or imply the endorsement, recommendation, or favoring of companies or organizations.
©