From mlive.com:
On Wednesday, Aug. 10, the Great Lakes Commission and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced nearly $10 million in grants to fund habitat restoration and water quality improvement projects in 14 cities around Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota and New York.
The bulk of that money, $7.9 million, was funneled to Michigan through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (
GLRI), a federal program that funds region-wide pollution cleanup, habitat restoration and invasive species management.
The money is going to the Lower Muskegon River Hydrological Reconnection and Wetland Restoration Project, which hopes to remove Muskegon Lake from a U.S. and Canadian list of toxic hot spots known as Great Lakes Areas of Concern.
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