By: Deborah Johnson Wood
A four year effort to create a regional association to restore, protect, and enhance water quality in the Lower Grand River drainage basin has culminated in the development of LGROW, the Lower Grand River Organization of Watersheds.
LGROW will act as an agency of the Grand Valley Metropolitan Council, overseeing environmental activities concerning Michigan waterways in an area covering over 3,000 square miles from a point where the Grand and Looking Glass rivers meet in downtown Portland east through Metro Grand Rapids to Lake Michigan.
Ten counties and several rivers and creeks, including the Grand River, Thornapple River, Flat River, Coldwater River, Plaster Creek, and Buck Creek are included.
Funding for operations comes from an Urban Cooperation Board grant and two U.S. EPA grants.
Source: Grand Valley Metropolitan Council
Deborah Johnson Wood is development news editor for Rapid Growth Media. She can be contacted at [email protected].
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