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Restoring Urban Waters, Revitalizing Communities
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The Urban Waters Program
helps urban and metropolitan
areas, particularly those that are
under-served or economically
distressed, connect with their
waterways and work to improve
them.
Working with a diverse set
of partners, we seek to help
communities restore and protect
water quality and revitalize
adjacent rural, suburban, and
urban neighborhoods throughout
the watershed.
Through this partnership program,
communities gain economic,
environmental, and social
benefits,and collaborate with
federal, state, and local agencies,
as weli as community-led efforts,
to achieve common goals.
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- National Reach,
Local Results
• 15 federal agencies
More than 28 non governmental
organization partners
20 partnership locations.
Advancing Environmental Justice:
•	65% of Five Star grants in iow-income/minority
communities
•	Funded 12 U.S. EPA Environmental Justice grants in
2018 and 2019($540K)
Supported four local environmental justice projects
in 2020 (over S125K)
Hosted two national training workshops on equity
Environmental Results Snapshot:
Reached
Removed
Prevented
164,349
258,000
500,000
community
cubic yards of
gallons of
members
contaminated
stormwater
through events
sediment and
from entering
and campaigns
soil
waterbodies
Restored
Collected
Engaged
155
23,139
3,550
acres of marshes.
pounds of trash
volunteers and
wetlands and
and 106 pounds
participants at
fields
of recycling
events
¦The UW Program:	
Funded Five Star and Urban Waters
Restoration Grants to watershed
projects that:
Engaged more than
volunteers across over 270
organizations implementing
dozens of projects across the country, which
resulted in over 10,000 trees and 20,000
marsh plants, seeds and native grasses
planted, preventing over 500,000 gallons of
stormwater from entering waterbodies.
Facilitated Information Exchange through
the Urban Waters Learning Network:
More than 580 members in the
online network connected to
share best practices through
seven webinars, five newsletters and 700
website visitors per month.
Leveraged Funds:
Secured more than $33 million in
grants and federal funding for Urban
Waters projects.
vvEPA
United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
For additional information on the Urban Waters program,
please visit: https://www.urbanwaters.gov/.
January 2021
Document Number: 842F21001

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Local Efforts, Watershed-Wide Impacts
Anacostia River (DC/MD) -
Released a river sediment cleanup plan in an 815-acre
area to make the river safer.
Patapsco River (MD) -
Distributed 376 trees, over 39 cubic yards of mulch
and 121 recycling bins; trained community members
on stormwater management practices.
Bronx and Harlem River (NY) -
Developed 75 watershed-wide recommendations for
water quality improvement.
Delaware River (PA/NJ/DE) -
Restored 14 acres of wetlands and enhanced coastal
resiliency.

Grand River (Ml) -
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River habitat
restoration expected
to draw 500K visitors
i and generate S15-19M
revenue annually.
Green Duwamish (WA) -
Engaged students in green infrastructure practices to
support salmon recovery.
Lake Pontchartrain (LA) -
Monitored water health by using cyanobacterial
sampling to determine that waters are meeting EPA
recreational water criteria.
Los Angeles River (CA) -
Studied how urban riverbeds can be redesigned
to provide improved habitat and fish passage, and
stakeholders received funding to develop partial designs.
Meramec/Big River (MO) -
Coordinated and developed a plan to restore 1,600
acres of degraded habitat.
Middle Blue River (MO/KS) -
Restored 23 acres of wetlands, engaged 150
volunteers, reached 150,000 community members
through its Renew the Blue Campaign.
Middle Rio Grande (MM) -
Opened Albuquerque's first "Mobile Pop-up Park."

Mystic River (MA) -

Led watershed
community meetings
to discuss and begin
implementing nutrient
reduction strategies.

Lower Passaic River (NJ) -
Reduced trash in the river through an education
campaign.
Northwest Indiana (IN) -
Remediated 24 acres, converted 40 acres of farmland
to native grasslands to restore water quality, restored
16 acres of dune habitat.
Installed trash capture devices to remove 80% of
upstream litter through a public/private partnership.
Salt and Gila
River (AZ) -
Developed plan to
improve 14 miles of
rivers, create 5 miles of
trails and improve 1,485
acres of habitat.
San Antonio River Basin (TX) -
Advanced ozone and smog reduction planning efforts
to reduce water contamination.
Martin Pena
Channel (PR)
Created Resilient
Community hubs to
address resiliency
challenges and engage
citizen scientists
in environmental
monitoring.
South Platte (CO) -
Updated Water Quality Assessment Tool to provide up-
to-date data of important water quality parameters.
Western Lake Erie Basin (OH) -
300 citizen scientists entered 10 years of historical
data to a new water quality database.
vvEPA
United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
For additional information on the Urban Waters program,
please visit: https://www.urbanwaters.gov/.
January 2021
Document Number: 842F21001

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