HONOLULU (June 16, 2022) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $264,116 to Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources to increase applications that restore habitat, defend water high quality and wetlands. The funding was awarded by EPA’s Wetland Program Development Grants.
“We are more than happy to help Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources in its efforts to enhance water high quality and restore wetlands,” stated EPA Pacific Southwest Regional Administrator Martha Guzman “Healthy wetlands present quite a few advantages to ecosystems and communities throughout Hawaii, and these grants will permit our state and native companions to make important progress defending these important assets the place it is wanted most.”
Wetland Program Development Grants help state, tribal, and native authorities companies and interstate/intertribal entities in growing or refining applications which defend, handle, and restore wetlands.
Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources will obtain $264,116 to develop Hawaii’s first safety and restoration technique for the state’s anchialine swimming pools—enclosed water our bodies or ponds with an underground connection to the ocean—and marshes. The venture will convene a state advisory committee, develop a monitoring and evaluation technique, establish regulatory program wants, and distribute venture outputs to companions to information wetland restoration and safety efforts throughout the state. These actions had been recognized as priorities in Hawaii’s Wetland Program Plan developed with help from a earlier EPA Wetland Program Development Grant.
