02J50201

Description:
The Freshwater Trust (TFT) will implement high-impact irrigation upgrades on agricultural fields that reduce the sediment-associated inorganic mercury and phosphorus runoff that fuel dangerous methylmercury production in the Snake River. The environmental benefits of this project include healthier river systems and a reduction of impacts of toxics on fish and wildlife. This agreement will be funded under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

Activities:
TFT will develop a funding and implementation plan and deploy an operational subaward system that identifies high priority projects to maximize mercury reductions. A coordinating committee of key funders and implementers will use analytics to identify priority projects, work with agricultural and implementation partners, and use existing credible and transparent systems to account for, track, and report overall mercury reduction results.

Subrecipient:
This project will launch, grow, and adaptively manage subawards under an outcomes-based funding and implementation plan. TFT anticipates funding 22+ priority subaward projects designed to reduce mercury from entering the mid-Snake River. To the extent possible, TFT will maximize project investment into communities identified as priorities by the EPA EJ SCREEN or CJEST tools, or as Idaho Department of Environmental Quality priority nitrate areas.

Outcomes:
The anticipated project outputs include assembling a coordinating committee and designing a subaward system and implementation plan. The anticipated outcomes of this work include a minimum of 2.7M pounds of mercury-laden sediment prevented from entering the mid-Snake, with an associated reduction in phosphorus load. The anticipated beneficiaries are communities within the mid-Snake River and Columbia River Basin.

The Freshwater Trust

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66.962 - Columbia River Basin Restoration (CRBR) Program

EPA Region 10: Seattle [EPA - RO]

Boise, Idaho United States

County-Wide

Columbia River Basin Restoration Funding Assistance Program – Toxic Reduction Lead (EPA-I-R10-OW-CRBRP-2023-02)

Infrastructure $1,704,040 (40%) percent this Project Grant was funded by the 2021 Infrastructure Act.
Amendment Since initial award the total obligations have increased 84% from $3,103,974 to $5,703,974.