Resources for
freshwater
Funding
: Oct 23 – Nov 21, 2025
$200,000-500,000
National Estuary Program Watersheds Grant Program
The National Estuary Program (NEP) Watersheds Grant Program is a nationally competitive grants addressing the most pressing threats to estuarine health within the 28 NEP boundary areas. This program is offered through Restore America’s Estuaries, with funding from the U.S. EPA.
Program priorities include: 1) Habitat loss (wetlands, seagrass, mangroves, reefs), 2) Coastal resilience and sea level rise, 3) Nutrient pollution, 4) Stormwater impacts and erosion, and 5) Invasive species and marine mammal mortalities.
Funding
: Oct 23 – Nov 21, 2025
$200,000-500,000
National Estuary Program Watersheds Grant Program
The National Estuary Program (NEP) Watersheds Grant Program is a nationally competitive grants addressing the most pressing threats to estuarine health within the 28 NEP boundary areas. This program is offered through Restore America’s Estuaries, with funding from the U.S. EPA.
Funding
: Jun 25 – Sep 23, 2024
National Culvert Removal, Replacement, & Restoration Grants – FY24 (Year 3)
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law established the National Culvert Removal, Replacement, and Restoration Grant program (Culvert Aquatic Organism Passage Program) to provide funding for projects that would meaningfully improve or restore passage for anadromous fish (anadromous fish species are born in freshwater such as streams and rivers, spend most of their lives in the marine environment, and migrate back to freshwater to spawn).
Eligible projects include projects to replace, remove, or repair culverts or weirs that would meaningfully improve or restore fish passage for anadromous fish. With respect to weirs, the project may include—infrastructure to facilitate fish passage around or over the weir; and weir improvements.
Funding
: Jun 25 – Sep 23, 2024
National Culvert Removal, Replacement, & Restoration Grants – FY24 (Year 3)
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law established the National Culvert Removal, Replacement, and Restoration Grant program (Culvert Aquatic Organism Passage Program) to provide funding for projects that would meaningfully improve or restore passage for anadromous fish (anadromous fish species are born in freshwater such as streams and rivers, spend most of their lives in the marine environment, and migrate back to freshwater to spawn).
$200,000-500,000
National Estuary Program Watersheds Grant Program
The NEP Coastal Watersheds Grant Program is a nationally competitive grants program designed to support projects that address urgent and challenging issues threatening the well-being of estuaries within the 28 NEP boundary areas.
This grant program funds projects aimed at addressing the following Congressionally-set priorities: • Loss of key habitats resulting in significant impacts on fisheries and water quality such as seagrass, mangroves, tidal and freshwater wetlands, forested wetlands, kelp beds, shellfish beds, and coral reefs; • Coastal resilience and extreme weather events including flooding and coastal erosion related to sea level rise, changing precipitation, warmer waters, or salt marsh, seagrass, or wetland degradation or loss and accelerated land loss; • Impacts of nutrients and warmer water temperatures on aquatic life and ecosystems, including low dissolved oxygen conditions in estuarine waters; • Stormwater runoff which not only can erode stream banks but can carry nutrients, sediment, and trash into rivers and streams that flow into estuaries; • Recurring harmful algae blooms; • Unusual or unexplained marine mammal mortalities; and • Proliferation or invasion of species that limit recreational uses, threaten wastewater systems, or cause other ecosystem damage.
$200,000-500,000
National Estuary Program Watersheds Grant Program
The NEP Coastal Watersheds Grant Program is a nationally competitive grants program designed to support projects that address urgent and challenging issues threatening the well-being of estuaries within the 28 NEP boundary areas.