GLIN==> Michigan Volunteer Stream Monitoring Grant Awards for 2010

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 A bulletin of the Michigan Clean Water Corps
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Michigan Volunteer Stream Monitoring Grant Awards for 2010

The Department of Natural Resources and Environment (DNRE) and the Great
Lakes Commission (GLC) are pleased to announce that seven organizations have
been chosen to receive volunteer water quality monitoring grants (three full
grants and four start-up grants) to be awarded under the Michigan Clean
Water Corps (MiCorps)  <http://www.micorps.net/> Program. 

The MiCorps Program was established by Governor Jennifer M. Granholm to
involve and assist the state's volunteer water quality organizations with
water quality assessments, protection, and stewardship of Michigan's lakes
and rivers. These volunteer dependent monitoring groups further expand the
existing network of committed citizens who are working hard to monitor water
quality in Michigan. 

  

The seven organizations sharing nearly $50,000 in grant funds to support
their volunteer monitoring work beginning in 2010 are: 

Full Grants: 

. Michigan Trout Unlimited - $17,562 to monitor 14 sites in the Kalamazoo,
Rogue, Au Sable, and Pilgrim Rivers watersheds. 

. Branch County Conservation District - $15,403.81 to monitor 10 sites in
the Hodunk-Messenger Chain of Lakes watershed, a subwatershed to the
Coldwater River. 

. Flint River Watershed Coalition - $10,111.55 to expand their current
monitoring program in the Flint River watershed to include new monitoring
sites. 

Start-Up Grants: 

  

.  Muskegon River Watershed Assembly - $3,000 to design a monitoring
strategy for the Hersey River watershed. 

  

.  Gogebic Conservation District - $2,000 to design a monitoring strategy
for the Black River, a tributary to the Presque Isle River. 

.  Cannon Township (Kent County) - $1,054.25 to design a monitoring strategy
for Bear Creek, a tributary to the Grand River. 

.  Midland Conservation District - $866.37 to design a monitoring strategy
for Sturgeon Creek, a tributary to the Tittabawassee River. 

The grants, awarded through the DNRE's MiCorps Volunteer Stream
<http://www.micorps.net/streamoverview.html> Monitoring Program, provide
training and support for volunteers to help them collect quality data on the
state's water resources. The data are used to support local activities and
the DNRE's efforts to protect and manage the state's water resources. 

The DNRE (formly the Department of Environmental Quality) established the
Volunteer Stream Monitoring Program in 1998 and contracted with the GLC to
administer it as part of MiCorps in the fall of 2004. 

  

For additional information, visit the MiCorps Web site at www.micorps.net
<http://www.micorps.net/>  or contact Dr. Paul Steen of the Huron River
Watershed Council at 734-769-5123 or by e-mail at psteen at hrwc.org.

 

Interested in becoming a volunteer monitor? 

Please visit http://www.micorps.net
<http://www.micorps.net/lakeoverview.html>  or contact Paul Steen
<mailto:psteen at hrwc.org>  for more information!

 

  <http://micorps.net/email/images/micorps-logo.gif> 	The Michigan Clean
Water Corps (MiCorps <http://micorps.net/> ) was created through an
executive order by Governor Jennifer M. Granholm to assist the Department of
Natural Resources & Environment (formerly the Department of Environmental
Quality) in collecting and sharing water quality data for use in water
resources management and protection programs.	
 
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Staff Contact: Laura Kaminski, Great Lakes Commission, (734) 971-9135
 
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