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Stream Partners Hotline: 1-800-654-5227
Local Number: (304) 926-0495
How to become a Stream Partner and apply for a $5,000 dollar seed grant
to complete your watershed improvement project...
What is a Stream Partner?
A community-based organization comprised of local citizens, industry, environmental
groups, sportsmen, local government, and landowners that are interested in improving
the quality of life in and around their stream and watershed.
A Stream Partner...
- Identifies the issues affecting their stream and the watershed
- Forms community-based partnerships to accomplish present and future watershed
improvement projects and goals.
- Completes a watershed improvement project that will restore, protect, or
enhance their stream or watershed.
- Establishes a reputation in the community as a voice of the people that
gets results.
- Educates their community on the importance of restoring, protecting, and
enhancing their stream or watershed.
- Is willing to match 20% of a $5,000 seed grant with cash and/or in-kind
service contributions to complete sustainable watershed improvement projects.
What Stream Partners can do for you:
- Help organize a community-based watershed association.
- Assist is selecting and prioritizing your watershed improvement projects.
- Find technical and financial resource assistance to complete sustainable
watershed improvement projects.
- Assist in the development of stakeholders and partnerships for your watershed
association.
- Facilitate your watershed association meetings.
$5,000 Seed Grants
Seed grants are available to help your watershed association form partnerships
to complete sustainable watershed improvement projects that have long-term effects
on your community and watershed.
Types of Watershed Improvement Projects Funded:
- Fish and wildlife habitat creation and enhancement
- Stream bank stabilization and erosion and sediment control
- Education and outreach of the importance of restoring, protecting, and
enhancing streams and watersheds
- Clean-up projects that remove debris and litter from stream banks, in conjunction
with a sustainable watershed improvement project
- Water quality monitoring and water quality improvements
- Wetland restoration
Note: Applications that include a variety of the projects mentioned above
are given a higher priority.
Grant Guidelines:
To be eligible for a Stream Partners seed grant, applicants must do the following:
- Organize or have a community-based group that is interested in improving
the quality of a stream or watershed.
- Decide on a watershed improvement project that fits into the categories
listed above.
- Complete the grant application cover sheet.
- Answer the Grant Application Questions.
- Return the cover sheet and completed application questions by April 15th
to:
WV Department of Environmental Protection
601 57th Street, SE
Charleston, WV 25304
Grant Period is one year from September 1st of the application year
to August 31st of the following year.
Matching the Grant
20% of the grant must be matched with in-kind service contributions and/or
cash.
Budget
The applicant must provide a budget of intended expenses for the proposed watershed
improvement project (include cash and/or in-kind service contributions). Watershed
improvement project budgets may be revised in writing as your watershed association's
goals change.
Receipts must be kept on file.
Grant Application & Questionnaire
Return cover sheet and completed grant application questions found on the second
page of the application by April 15th to:
WV Department of Environmental Protection
601 57th Street, SE
Charleston, WV 25304
April 15 - Grant application deadline.
September 1 - Grant year begins.
March 31 - Mid-term report deadline.
August 31 - Watershed improvement project completion deadline and
grant year ends.
September 30 - Final report deadline. Include budget, cash and/or
in-kind service contributions. Receipts are to be kept on file.
Download the Application below in Adobe PDF format
 Download Application
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