The Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service is receiving its first investment through the new Collaborative Aquatic Landscape Restoration Program to help improve water quality nationwide.
The investment is the first round of $25.5 million over five years through the Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act (IIJA).
“President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law has given us a remarkable opportunity to restore and improve waterways across the whole landscape,” said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. “The investments we’re making here ensure communities have clean drinking water and the improved fish habitats that rural areas rely on for subsistence and strong recreation economies.”
The Collaborative Aquatic Landscape Restoration Program is providing support to 89 projects. In addition to improving water quality, the 89 projects will reduce sedimentation into streams and restore functioning floodplains across tribal, state and federally managed public lands.
Details are available at the Collaborative Aquatic Landscape Restoration Program website.
