Additional Grants to Consider for Stream Crossing Upgrades

1. Additional Grants to Consider for Stream Crossing Upgrades Patty Gambarini Pioneer Valley Planning Commission

2. Greater competition for monies Projects that meet multiple objectives • improving transportation networks and public safety • reducing hazards • restoring habitat • creating more resilient communities/stream systems • improving water quality Strategy: think broadly Multiple sources for funding habitat restoration, transportation,emergency management, water quality

3. Blandford Brimfield Chester Chesterfield Cummington Goshen Granby Granville Hadley Hampden Hatfield Holland Huntington Middlefield Montgomery Pelham Plainfield Russell Southampton Tolland Wales Westhampton Williamsburg Worthington

4. Transportation improvements to enhance safety in small, rural communities (pop. 7,000 or less) Can apply to cover full design/engineering along with construction costs • Buckland: $971,053 to repair portion of Clesson Brook Road (complements $4.1 in federal funding for repairs to reduce hazards) • Paxton: $200,000 to replace Davis Hill Road culvert to increase public safety and allow trucks to utilize roadway • Blandford: $500,000 to support reconstruction of 3 roads that are used by several towns to improve public safety MassWorks

6. June 1 Online application opens September 3-14 Applicants can submit applications MassWorks 2013 timetable See: http://www.mass.gov/hed/economic/eohed/pro/infrastructure/massworks/

7. Control of non point source pollution • Waters that have known water quality impairments • Subwatersheds that most likely to respond to non point source best management and remediation Clean Water Act Section 319 Grants

8. Groton, James Brook, Urban Stormwater Improvements Culvert improvement, stream channel restoration to reduce total suspended solids and nutrient runoff downstream Total project cost: $ 223,910 319 funding: $ 134,350 Town of Groton:$ 89,560 • Northfield, Stormwater Management for Unpaved Roads: Four Mile Brook Road Implement previously identified priority projects, including BMPs at 16 culverts Total project cost: $ 394,987 319 funding: $ 225,613 Town of Northfield:$ 169,374 Recent 319 projects (that have included culverts)

9. Request for Responses - around April 1 • 2 pre RFR meetings - March 20 and March 27 • Projected grant request deadline - June 3 Before RFR issued expecting new guidance from EPA that will affect eligibility 319 grants timetable See COMM-PASS and DEP website for more information

10. Only 26% of roads in region eligible • Need tremendous patience and persistence • Culverts can be funded if part of a larger road reconstruction project • With MAP 21, it appears funding “to restore and maintain connectivity among terrestrial or aquatic habitats” will be eligible under what they are calling the Transportation Alternatives Program Transportation funding - federal

11. Region - $21.4 million in 2012 • Reflects recent increases with statewide funding from $100 million to $200 million, and possibly now to $300 million annually • When essential, could use some of these monies as nonfederal match toward other grants Transportation funding – Chapter 90

12. Local technical assistance request • Tie into regional plan Ways PVPC could help

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