[미국] NJ American Water, 2014 환경 보조금 수상자 발표

New Jersey와 그들의 지역사회의 더 향상된 물 의식과 환경친화를 위해 일하고 있는 5개의 조직은 New Jersey American Water의 2014 환경 보조금 프로그램의 수상자로 선발됐다. 대략 3만6천 달러의 보조금이 수자원이나 유역 보호를 위한 프로젝트 그룹에 수여된다. New Jersey American Water의 심사위원은 프로젝트 목적, 영향, 혁신적인 디자인, 협력, 지속가능성, 지역 사회의 참여 등의 기준에 따라 수상자를 선발했다.

New Jersey American Water의 환경 보조금 프로그램은 지역사회의 물 제공 향상과 개선, 유역의 회복과 보호를 위한 활동에 참여하는 조직에게 보조금을 제공한다. 보호 활동에는 생활 장소 개선과 빗물 관리, 원천 보호 계획, 유역 정화, 빗물 정원 보호, 수질 보호와 재식림 노력이 포함된다.

2009년 이래로 New Jersey American Water의 환경 보조금 프로그램은 주목할만한 녹색 프로젝트에 거의 15만 달러의 보조금을 제공했다.

Winners of NJ American Water's 2014 Environmental Grants announced
 
Five organizations working to make the state of New Jersey and their communities more water aware and environmentally friendly have been chosen as the recipients of New Jersey American Water's 2014 Environmental Grant Program. Totaling approximately $36,000, the grants are awarded to groups with projects addressing water source or watershed protection.

A panel of judges from New Jersey American Water chose the following recipients based on criteria such as project goals, project impact, innovation, design, collaboration, sustainability, and community engagement among other requirements.

Borough of Highlands, Monmouth County for a project to install 100 rain barrels throughout the borough to encourage residents to collect and reuse rain water for watering gardens, agriculture, washing cars, plumbing, and to create filtered water.

Camden Urban Airshed Reforestation Program has a plan to install 20 street trees in East Camden which will replace 320 square feet of concrete to increase stormwater filtration by 15,000 gallons and improve the Delaware Watershed.

Cranbury Environmental Commission which will construct a rain garden at Village Park parking lot and Brainerd Lake. The rain garden will slow pollutant runoff from the parking lot into the lake.

Girl Scouts Heart of New Jersey (Lebanon, NJ) to install bat boxes near the Round Valley Reservoir. Bats are predators of flying insects, consuming up to 3,000 insects each night. By thinning the insect population, bats help to reduce or stop the use of chemical pesticides which produce harmful runoff into the reservoir.

Raritan & Millstone Rivers Flood Control Commission to install webcams and a weather station at the confluence of the Raritan and Millstone Rivers to monitor rainfall amounts and weather conditions. The project will allow police and emergency management to view the river and track the flow and height of waters after major storms for the potential to prevent and/or react to flooding conditions.

New Jersey American Water's Environmental Grant Program provides funding to organizations engaged in activities that improve a community's water supply or improve, restore or protect watersheds, or promote water conservation. Such projects may include wildlife habitat improvement, storm water management, wellhead protection initiatives, watershed cleanups, rain garden projects, and water conservation or reforestation efforts. Since it began in 2009, New Jersey American Water's Environmental Grant Program has now provided nearly $150,000 in grants to notable green projects.
 

[출처 = Water World/ 2014년 4월 24일]