The ADEC Beach Grant program was established to protect public health through understanding impacts on our beaches and their recreational uses. To provide communities the information and guidelines for informing citizens about local beach health. |
Beach grant monies are being offered through the ACWA grant to provide funding to local or tribal governments or non-profit groups and their communities to monitor fecal coliform and enterococci bacteria in Alaska coastal waters pre-established through ADEC's Beach Grant program (see below). The total grant will provide $100,000 to local governments, tribal entities, or non-profit groups, distributed as follows:
ACWA Grant Monitoring/Fieldwork - $100,000 to be divided among five communities. (~$16,000 to $30,000 each):
Anchor Point - Anchor Point to Happy Valley Creek or Bluff Point to Anchor Point
Haines - Portage Cove Beach, Letnikof Cove Beach or Lutak Inlet Beach
Homer/Fritz Creek – Bishop's Beach
Juneau – Auke Recreation Area, Lena Cove Beach, and Ann Coleman Road Beach
Kenai - North Kenai Beach
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Beach grants have been awarded for Fiscal Year 2012. Please come back in late 2011 for information on Fiscal Year 2013 funding opportunities.
For more information contact:
Brock Tabor
410 Willoughby Ave
Juneau, AK 99801
(907)465-5023
Brock.tabor@alaska.gov
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