U.S. EPA, Rep. Marcy Kaptur Announce $105,000 In Great Lakes Green Infrastructure Grant For Lakewood

The U.S. EPA and Rep. Marcy Kaptur joined Mayor Michael Summers to announce that Lakewood was one of four Lake Erie shoreline cities to receive funding for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.

The Northern Ohio green infrastructure projects, one of them slated for Lakewood, are aimed at improving water quality in the Lake Erie basin.

The city’s storm water management plans include the addition of trees, bioswales and permeable pavers.

“In Lakewood, Lake Erie starts at our rooftops, our sidewalks and our streets,” Summers said.

Lakewood will receive $105,000 in grants that will be used on the city’s Green Street Project, on Madison Avenue at Madison Park, and the Green Parking Lot Project, at a municipal parking lot near Detroit Avenue. The funding was announced at a meeting at the Woman’s Pavilion at Lakewood Park on Tuesday, March 18.

“We’re grateful for the money that will support this very visible project,” said Summers. “It’s a project that will demonstrate some of the ways that we can better manage storm water, reminding our citizens what we can do — and what we are obligated to do.”

The other cities awarded grant funding were Cleveland, Toledo and Lorain. 

For more information about the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative or Shoreline Cities Green Infrastructure Grants, visit http://www.glri.us/.

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Volume 10, Issue 7, Posted 3:06 PM, 04.01.2014