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DEP Awards $248K in Coastal Zone Grants Grants will fund seven vital projects in the Lake Erie Coastal Zone by Matt Swanseger Dean Zeller Presque Isle State Park in the winter months Most would agree that the Gem City would be at best considered cubic zirconia without its most precious resource Lake Erie and its shoreline. Coastal waters and coastal land are often grouped together as coastal zones, because one directly and intimately affects the other.  Day in and day out, the Lake Erie Coastal Zone is under constant threat from human development, erosion, biodiversity loss (i.e. disappearance of species key to preserving ecological balance), and pollution. Altogether, the Lake Erie Coastal Zone encompasses 77 miles of the Lake Erie watershed in Erie County much to embrace, and much to worry over. 

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