(Arnolds Park)– The Dickinson County Water Quality Commission has received 12 applications seeking funding in its next round of grants for the 2005 fiscal year.
They include:
A joint application from the Natural Resource Conservation Service and the Soil and Water Conservation District requesting 10-thousand dollars for workshops on low-impact developments;
Friends of Lakeside Lab is requesting 38-thousand dollars for water quality monitoring;
The Soil and Water Conservation District applied for 23,500-dollars for partial salary compensation of the Cleanwater Alliance Coordinator;
The Soil and Water Conservation District and Ag Knowledge Program applied for nearly 28-thousand dollars for a turf management program;
The Soil and Water Conservation District applied for 25-thousand dollars for a conservation easement program;
Five thousand dollars has been applied for by the Soil and Water Conservation District for a rock tile intake project;
The Jackson County Soil and Water Conservation District applied for 30-thousand for conservation programs;
Another 15-thousand was applied for by the Jackson County Soil and Water Conservation District for financial incentives;
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources requested 80-thousand for a watershed project;
Milford Municipal Utilities and Lakeside Lab requested 15-thousand dollars for a “water resources investigation”;
The Iowa Great Lakes Maritime Museum is requesting 45-thousand dollars for a low-impact parking lot project;
And the Dickinson County Conservation Board is requesting 3,700-dollars for a joint internship program.
A total of 318-thousand dollars is being requested in the 12 applications. Problem is only 200-thousand is available.
The commission will mull over the requests some more when it meets at 5:30 p.m. Monday (10/06).
