The deadline for King County’s Green Grants application is coming up, Friday, June 7 at 5 p.m.

King County’s Wastewater Treatment Division awards Green Grants funding to small-scale environmental projects that help control combined sewer overflows and support cleanup goals for the Lower Duwamish.
If you have an idea for such a project, and want to pursue it, the money is there.

A total of $108,000 in grant funding is available in 2013, with a maximum award of $50,000 per applicant.

Some the programs already funded include.

· The South Park Area Redevelopment Committee earned a $25,000 Green Grant for work on the South Park GreenStreets Roadside rain gardens project.

· The Environmental Coalition of South Seattle (ECOSS) is putting $55,000 to help small businesses best manage stormwater runoff.

· Garden Cycles is using $33,000 in Green Grant funding to give hands-on experience to students and volunteers to reduce the impact of stormwater on Puget Sound by removing invasive vegetation and planting and maintaining hundreds of trees, shrubs and wetland plants.

· People for Puget Sound/Washington Environmental Council earned $25,000 to build public awareness through outreach and events about the impact of polluted runoff on Puget Sound.

· Sustainable Seattle is putting $51,000 to work to encourage the installation of rain gardens and cisterns to help control combined sewer overflows.

Need more info?
Call Jo Sullivan at 206-296-8361, email GreenGrants@kingcounty.gov, or visit http://www.kingcounty.gov/environment/wtd/Programs/GreenGrants.aspx.