The Conservation Resource Alliance in Traverse City has been awarded
$1.5 million in grant funding from Sustain Our Great Lakes (SOGL) for
the Boardman River Dams Restoration Project. SOGL is a public-private
partnership that supports habitat restoration throughout the Great Lakes
basin. The Conservation Resource Alliance is the project manager.
This grant follows more than $1 million in grant funding from other public and private sources
announced
in July and brings the total raised for the removal of Boardman Dam and
replacement of Cass Road Bridge to $7.1 million. The local fundraising
goal to complete this part of the overall project is $10.8 million. The
SOGL grant requires a 1:1 match in non-federal funds.
Construction at Boardman Dam, beginning with the Cass Road bridge
construction, is slated to begin in 2015. Construction for removal of
Boardman Dam is tentatively scheduled to begin in 2016; Sabin Dam
removal is expected to occur no earlier than 2017.
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