Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced today that 12 projects in the state’s Northcentral region were awarded a total of $2,652,247 through DEP’s Growing Greener Plus grant program. These projects work to protect waterways and watersheds, reclaim abandoned mine sites, and work to reclaim and plug abandoned oil and gas wells. This year’s awards exceed $15 million statewide.
“The Growing Greener Plus grant program empowers communities to pursue environmental progress and innovation,” said Acting Secretary Jessica Shirley. “This support fuels vital Pennsylvania initiatives that protect our land and restore local watersheds. As a result, our Commonwealth can look forward to a greener future.”
Growing Greener is the largest single investment of state funds in Pennsylvania's history to address critical environmental concerns. Growing Greener grants can be awarded to watershed groups, local or county government, municipal authorities, county planning commissions, county conservation districts, council of governments, educational institutions, or non-profit organizations. Grantees have up to three years to implement their projects.
This funding is being distributed through existing Commonwealth grant programs to ensure high-impact projects are selected in the affected communities and that proper oversight is provided. Grant programs include those operated by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and the DEP.
For more information on the Growing Greener Plus grant program, application guidance, and to sign up for notifications when grant programs reopen, visit DEP’s webpage, Growing Greener Plus Grants Program.
The full list of approved Growing Greener Plus projects, funded by the Environmental Stewardship fund, in the Northcentral Region includes:
Bradford County
- Butler County Conservation District - $256,500 for Tomjack Creek Watershed Rehabilitation II
- Bradford County Commissioners - $286,000 for the Bradford County Watershed Initiative 2025
Clearfield County
- Clearfield County Conservation District - $200,000 for Clearfield County Agricultural and Stream Restoration BMP Implementation
Clinton County
- Clinton County Conservation District - $117,000 for Long Spring Run Stream Restoration and Stream Stabilization
Columbia, Montour, and Luzerne Counties
- Columbia County Conservation District - $395,000 for the Multi-County Soil Health Project
Lycoming County
- Northcentral Pennsylvania Conservancy - $350,000 for Improving the Chesapeake Bay through Local Implementation
Montour County
- Montour County Conservation District - $258,080 for the Mahoning Creek Manure Storage Project
Potter County
- Potter County Conservation District - $36,835 for Streambank Stabilization Projects
Snyder County
- SEDA-COG Joint Rail Authority - $90,000 for the Selinsgrove Industrial Track Slope Stabilization Repair Project
Tioga County
- Tioga County Conservation District - $130,000 for Lycoming Creek Erosion Mitigation Project Phase I
Union County
- Union County Conservation District - $317,832 for Winfield Creek Stream Improvements
Statewide
- Stroud Water Research Center, Inc. - $215,000 for Forested Buffers with Livestock Exclusion project
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