LIMA – An educator from the Erie Canal Museum in central New York will explore the links between the Erie Canal and the Underground Railroad in an upcoming program at
DELPHOS — Plans to form Miami-Erie Canal Corridor in downtown Delphos were recently shared with local and area stakeholders.
The Delphos Canal Commission,
EPA awards $2.8M in brownfields grants to region | The Daily Gazette
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GLOVERSVILLE & MONTGOMERY COUNTY – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday announced a $300,000 Brownfields Program assessment grant for properties in Fulton County and an $800,000 multipurpose grant for the Greater Mohawk Valley Land Bank.
The grants are part of $66.5 million worth of EPA grants awarded to 151 communities nationwide for the purpose of assessing and cleaning up contaminated properties under the EPA’s Brownfields Program.
The Mohawk Valley and the Capital Region received a total of $2.8 million worth of Brownsfield Program grants Wednesday, with the largest grant, $800,000, going to the Greater Mohawk Valley Land Bank targeting a 20-mile stretch of land along the Erie Canal Corridor that includes the villages of Canajoharie and Fort Plain and the city of Little Falls. The multipurpose grant will be used to update a brownfields site inventory, select sites for i
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