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The Octoraro Watershed Association is getting a grant to continue partnering with farmers in Lancaster and Chester counties for reforestation and stream buffer restoration projects.
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By NICK SAMBIDES, JR.; OF THE NEWS STAFF  LINCOLN - Now that the Town Council has accepted a $38,000 federal matching grant, the town's economic development assistant and zoning enforcement supervisor will start working with an engineer to design a children's fishing pond, she said Tuesday.
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By David Pollak, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb.
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By Mary Hopkin, Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Sep.
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By Chris Woodka, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 4--The Fountain Creek Vision Task Force has applied for a $75,000 grant through the Arkansas Basin Roundtable to pay for a professional facilitator in its quest to develop a master plan for future action on Fountain Creek.
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By Wade Rawlins, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Jun. 13--The cost of buying land to create parks, protect drinking water and preserve open space has increased nearly 300 percent in 10 years, say groups seeking additional state spending on land and water conservation.
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By John Stark, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Jun. 9--The final cleanup of a dump along the Nooksack River's south fork could cost a half million dollars or more, but no source for that money is immediately available.
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By Kie Relyea, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Jun. 3--The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has given a Bellingham salmon restoration group $158,734 in grants.
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By Mary Gail Hare, The Baltimore Sun  Sep. 6--A nonprofit group seeking to create a heritage trail network along a 40-mile stretch of the Susquehanna River in Harford and Cecil counties has received a federal grant intended to help get the project started.
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By Dave Sheeley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Sep. 6--Lannon -- Village officials will consider Monday holding a binding referendum on Nov. 7 that would allow borrowing an estimated $3 million to create a municipal water system here.
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By Jerome L. Sherman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette  Mar. 13--WASHINGTON -- Southwestern Pennsylvania stands to benefit from a  package of $14 billion in low-interest loans that the U.S. House approved last  week to help local governments pay for improvements to their sewage systems.
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One budget-cutting proposal on the table
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Regional government Metro has put together an oversight committee for its Natural Areas program, an initiative that pays for land acquisition and capital improvement projects to protect water quality and fish and wildlife habitat, trails, and wildlife corridors.
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By Kevin Howe, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Feb.
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WASHINGTON, June 19  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Water For People was awarded the maximum grant of $200,000 for an innovative sanitation project in Malawi designed to reduce the incidence of diarrhea through hygiene education, the use of children's latrines, and the production of compost for sale.
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By Marcie Young, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 6--A meeting Thursday on a plan to take millions of gallons of water a day out of the Catawba River basin is shaping up as a contest to see which side can turn out a bigger crowd.
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By Mark Guydish, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times Leader  Sep. 22--UNION TWP. -- Northwest Area High School students will have access to more computers, and teachers will have more high-tech "smart boards," thanks to a $67,000 state grant.