Title
Catawba-Wateree Habitat Enhancement Program Fund Grants
Action
ACTION:
A) Approve submission of a grant application up to $65,500 from Catawba-Wateree Habitat Enhancement Program
B) If awarded, recognize, receive, and appropriate the award amount to the General Grants Fund (G001) for Park and Recreation for the duration of the grant to fund rehabilitation of an eroded trail at Latta Nature Preserve
C) Adopt the required grant project ordinance for the grant in the General Grant Fund (G001)
Staff Contact: Chris Matthews, Division Director - Park and Recreation - Nature Preserves and Natural Resources
Presentation: No
BACKGROUND/JUSTIFICATION:
The Habitat Enhancement Program (HEP) is a cooperative initiative by Duke Energy, the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, and the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources. The HEP was developed during the re-licensing f the Catawba-Wateree Hydro Project to provide an effective means of allowing continued private recreational access while providing meaningful habitat creation, enhancement, and protection activities for fish and wildlife adjacent to the Catawba-Wateree River and its reservoirs. As part of the habitat management strategy, a "Habitat Enhancement Fund" has been set up to provide for habitat enhancement activities. This fund is supported through fees charged to property owners who want to build private piers and residential marina owners wishing to build multiple slip piers in Catawba-Wateree Hydro Project reservoirs, and from contributions by Duke Energy. These funds are awarded to successful applicants through a competitive proposal process.
The department will be submitting one grant application. The application would fund the rehabilitation of an eroded trail reach at Latta Nature Preserve with an innovative material that mimics a natural surface and will stabilize the trail. The trail rehabilitation grant amount is $65,500.
PROCUREMENT BACKGROUND:
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