The
National Estuary Program (NEP) Coastal Watersheds Grant (CWG) Program
is a nationally competitive grants program designed to support projects
that address urgent and challenging issues threatening the well-being of
coastal and estuarine areas within determined estuaries of national
significance.
The goals of the CWG Program are to:
- Address urgent and challenging issues that threaten the ecological and economic well-being of coastal areas and estuaries;
- Achieve
on-the-ground or tangible quantifiable improvements in coastal and
estuarine habitats conditions and the health of living resources; - Apply
new or innovative approaches, practices, methods, or techniques for
preventing, treating, and removing pollution entering estuaries; - Establish or improve sustainable local capacity to protect and restore coastal watersheds and their living resources; and
- Support and expand promising approaches for watershed resilience and adaptation.
This program offers an opportunity to make meaningful, on-the-ground
change via thoughtful, strategic decisions regarding projects. In
addition, the program will encourage partnerships in order to build
stronger, more resilient communities, particularly with respect to
climate change, seal level rise, and related issues.