The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that $540,000 in Emergency Watershed Protection Program (EWP) funding would be available in Pennsylvania for locally-sponsored watershed protection projects resulting from recent floods and other natural disasters such as tornadoes, fires, drought and hurricanes.

Pennsylvania is one of 19 states receiving the emergency assistance.

EWP funds can address public safety and restoration efforts on private lands and are used to remove debris, restore eroded streambanks, re-seed burned areas and take related steps to mitigate threats to people and property from impaired watersheds.

Contact your local office of the Natural Resources Conservation Service for more information or go to the EWP webpage for background and contacts.

NewsClip: $601K Awarded to Projects in Bradford County

2/25/2005