Outreach, Grants & Conservation

FAIRFAX WATER WATER SUPPLY STAKEHOLDER OUTREACH PROGRAM

Summary of Fiscal Year 2010 Grant Awards

Fairfax Water offers congratulations to the following organizations and homeowners who were awarded grants in 2010:
 

• The Environmental Studies on the Piedmont received a grant to educate middle and high school students on the value and techniques of watershed stewardship through hands-on monitoring of water quality including development planning, vegetative stream buffers and wetland ecosystem services.
   

• The Friends of the Occoquan were awarded a grant to support volunteer clean-up activities on the Occoquan Reservoir, including installing bi-lingual watershed educational signs.
   

• The Fairfax County Park Foundation was awarded a grant to buy equipment which will support source water educational programs at the Hidden Pond Nature Center.
   

• Two homeowners were awarded grants to help stabilize the shoreline of the Occoquan Reservoir against erosion.
   

• The Potomac Conservancy was awarded a grant to support their program to collect native hardwood and shrub seeds that are used to plant trees along streams.
   

For more information about the Water Supply Stakeholder Outreach Program, visit http://www.fairfaxwater.org/outreach/grants.htm.