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Brown Announces More than $750,000 in Great Lakes Restoration Funds for Western Reserve Land Conservancy

Press Release

Date: March 26, 2015
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Environment

Today, U.S. Sen. Brown (D-OH) announced that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $750,000 to Western Reserve Land Conservancy through the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI), an interagency effort to protect the Great Lakes. The grant will give Western Reserve Land Conservancy the ability to purchase 1,000 acres of easements in northern Ohio's Grand River Watershed -- protecting five miles of streams and 400 acres of wetland -- to reduce nutrient runoff and soil erosion that impacts Lake Erie.

"We saw last summer how harmful algae in Lake Erie can threaten our water supply and our economy," Brown said. "These federal resources will help support the proactive role we've seen northwest Ohio take in protecting our lake. The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative is critical in our fight to keep Lake Erie healthy and we must ensure its continued funding."


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