(Arnolds Park)– The Dickinson County Water Quality Commission has awarded funding to five water quality projects for the 2008 fiscal year.
An assessment of the Silver Lake watershed will receive 10-thousand dollars; an assessment and management plan for the Iowa Great Lakes was awarded 45-thousand dollars; the Angler’s Bay project through the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation was awarded 100-thousand; a naturalist internship program through the Dickinson County Conservation Board was awarded 5,100-dollars; and a storm water management plan being put together by the Okoboji Protective Association for the city of Wahpeton was awarded 15,548-dollars.
The Water Quality Commission had 200-thousand dollars in funding to work with in this funding cycle. Nine applications were received requesting 254,289-dollars.
The Dickinson County Water Quality Commission was established six years ago through a 28E agreement among Dickinson county and its municipalities.
Since its inception, the commission has awarded more than a million dollars in grants, matched by more than 10 million dollars in grants from state and federal organizations.
