Fall 2006 Grant Recipient
Applicant:
Buffalos Niagara Riverkeeper
617 Main Street
Buffalo, NY 14203
USA
(716) 852-7483
Email: rdrake@bnriverkeeper.org
Website: www.bnriverkeeper.org
Lake Basin: Lake Erie and Lake Ontario
“’Riverwatch’ Volunteer Waterway Monitoring Program”
Fall Grant Award: $4,000
Project Summary:
Riverkeeper will arrange 7-8 training workshops per year for our volunteer captains. These sessions will increase captains’ understanding of essential watershed issues and improve their skills as volunteer monitors. Riverkeeper will also maintain partnerships with local institutions to carry out testing of water samples gathered by volunteers. Upon receiving captain monitoring reports, we will work the captains, government agencies, municipalities, land owners, and the press to resolve the problems documented. Riverkeeper will also promote stormwater drain stenciling on thousands of storm drains in our watershed.
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Freshwater Future builds effective community-based citizen action to protect and restore the water quality of the Great Lakes basin. We work toward this goal by providing financial assistance, communications and networking assistance and technical assistance to citizens and grassroots watershed groups throughout the Great Lakes basin. Through these efforts we work with over 1,800 grassroots watershed groups and citizens to protect and restore the rivers, lakes and wetlands in their communities. Freshwater Future, Inc. is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization.
For more information, please contact:
info@freshwaterfuture.org
P.O. Box 2479, Petoskey, MI 49770
PH (231) 348-8200