Environmental Grant Program

Posted by on March 30, 2009

Pennsylvania American Water Accepting Applications for Environmental Grant Program
Deadline: May 1, 2009

Pennsylvania American Water, a subsidiary of American Water, has announced that applications are now welcome for its 2009 Environmental Grant Program.

The program is designed to support innovative, community-based environmental projects that improve, restore, or protect watersheds and community drinking water supplies in the company’s service area as well as diverse types of activities, including watershed cleanups, reforestation efforts, underground tank inspection programs, biodiversity projects, streamside buffer restoration projects, wellhead protection initiatives, and hazardous waste collection efforts.

Municipalities, schools, environmental organizations, and civic groups are eligible to apply. To qualify, a proposed project must be located within Pennsylvania American Water’s service area; be completed between June 1 and November 1, 2009; and be a new or innovative community initiative or serve as significant expansion to an existing program.

Grant information and application forms are available at the Pennsylvania American Water Web site.

Link to Complete RFP: http://pr.amwater.com/PressReleases/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=372270