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Register for webcast on “USDA’s NIFA-CEAP Watershed Synthesis: Lessons Learned”

Posted Tue, 2012/05/08 - 8:58am by RCAP

Join EPA for a free Watershed Academy Webcast titled "USDA’s NIFA-CEAP Watershed Synthesis: Lessons Learned” on May 15, 2012, from 1 to 3 p.m.

EPA announces availability of green infrastructure technical assistance to selected partner communities

Posted Fri, 2012/02/24 - 12:38pm by RCAP

EPA is accepting letters of interest from communities interested in receiving direct assistance for projects that facilitate the use of green infrastructure to protect water quality.  Technical assistance will be provided through EPA contract support and will be directed to watersheds/sewersheds with significant water-quality degradation associated with urban stormwater.  The total EPA assistance available is approximately $950,000 and will be distributed among 10 to 20 projects. The value of the assistance available to each project will be approximately $50,000 to $100,000.

EPA launches recovery potential screening website to assist restoration planners

Posted Tue, 2012/01/10 - 10:38am by RCAP

EPA announces the release of a new technical-assistance tool for state and watershed-level surface water quality protection and restoration programs: the recovery potential screening website (www.epa.gov/recoverypotential/).  Recovery potential screening is a flexible approach for comparing relative differences in restorability among impaired waters across a state, watershed or other area.  The website provides step-by-step screening directions, restorability indicators and literature, and tools for scoring and displaying results.