The city of Vancouver was among the government agencies and organizations to receive a toxins cleanup grant from the Environmental Protection Agency this week.
The funds will go toward the Columbia River Basin Restoration Funding Assistance program, founded in 2016 by Congress to reduce toxins in the basin’s water.
Vancouver, which was one of 14 organizations granted funding, received $144,039 from the EPA to improve the Columbia Slope sub-watershed within the city and to enhance water quality and stormwater sampling.
In total, the EPA announced $2.05 million in grants on Wednesday.
“These grants represent a critical new component of EPA’s efforts to protect and restore the Columbia River Basin,” EPA Region 10 Administrator Chris Hladick said in a media release. “We expect that these grants will encourage others to invest in complementary work that will provide significant reductions in toxics in the Basin.”
