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Clinton River watershed gets federal dollars
$20 million being infused into watershed after EPA announcement
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The Clinton River Watershed has 20-million additional reasons why pollution can be thing of the past in the system.
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday the watershed is getting a $20 million infusion with the hopes it can lead the removal of the Clinton River from the list of Areas of Concerns, a list of environmentally troubled area in the Great Lakes region, according to a report in the Detroit News.
Work will be done in both Macomb and Oakland counties.
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Funds will be directed some several programs including:
■Diversifying habitat along a nine-mile stretch of the Clinton River in the area of Sterling Heights: $4.5 million.
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■Restoration of 32,000 linear feet and roughly 90 acres of in-stream, bank and in-land habitat near Partridge Creek Commons, the McBride drain and the Clinton River Spillway: $6.3 million.
■Restoration of the eastern end of the Clinton River Spillway, as well as removal of invasive species: $2.5 million.
■Wetland restoration at Wolcott Mill Metropark: $335,374.
■Wetland restoration at Galloway Creek near Auburn Hills: $140,000.
■Restoration of 3,500 feet of stream at Sylvan Glen, in the City of Troy: $375,000.
■Improving fish and wildlife habitat, and restore coastal wetland areas at the point where the Clinton River empties into Lake St. Clair: $2.6 million.
■Stream-bank stabilization along the Clinton River in Shelby Township: $914,412.
■Restoration of 3,000 linear feet of channel and two acres of habitat at Galloway Creek.
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