HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s County Conservation Districts were awarded over $67,000 in grants.

With this funding, forty-one pollution reduction projects will take place in twenty-nine counties. These projects promote water pollution prevention activities through the Non-point Source (NPS) Pollution Prevention Educational Mini-Grant Program. The projects will take place over the next year.

“The projects funded through this mini-grant program will reach thousands of Pennsylvania’s citizens. Conservation districts will educate a variety of audiences on actions they can take every day to make a difference for future generations,” said Brenda Shambaugh, executive director for the Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts (PACD).

Funding for the grants, up to $2,000 each, is provided through the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection under Section 319 of the Clean Water Act, administered by the US Environmental Protection Agency.

In Cameron County, a grant of $630 will go to stream corridor management workshops; in McKean County, a grant of $2,000 will go to protecting McKean County watersheds; in Potter County, $2,000 each will go to landowner workshops and to the Potter County rotational grazing trial kit and field day.