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LGROW Featured in MI Resilient Watersheds Project Newsletter!
LGROW Featured in MI Resilient Watersheds Project Newsletter!
Rachell NagorsenMay 2, 2025
Rainscaping Update
Rainscaping Update

LGROW's Rainscaping Program has been providing resources for managing stormwater and improving habitat since 2018.

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Ella CarrJanuary 24, 2025
LGROW Receives Funding from USDA Forest Service!
LGROW Receives Funding from USDA Forest Service!

This funding will allow LGROW and community partners to plant 450 native trees and 50 native shrubs in the Plaster Creek, Rush Creek, and Buck Creek subwatersheds.

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Guest UserJanuary 1, 2025
Fall MiCorps Sampling in the Rogue River
Fall MiCorps Sampling in the Rogue River

This Fall, LGROW monitored water quality in the Rogue River Watershed using the MiCorps protocol.

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Matt BainDecember 9, 2024
GVMC Welcomes New MI Healthy Climate Corps Member.
GVMC Welcomes New MI Healthy Climate Corps Member.

This Americorps initiative engages young leaders in climate action projects to support Michigan's goal of carbon neutrality by 2050.

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Damaris PotterDecember 6, 2024
Keep Our Watershed Healthy by Adopting a Drain and Borrowing a Drain Cleanup Kit!
Keep Our Watershed Healthy by Adopting a Drain and Borrowing a Drain Cleanup Kit!

LGROW’s Adopt-a-Drain program has officially relaunched with an updated website, making it easier and more fun to adopt and maintain storm drains near you.

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Ella CarrNovember 14, 2024
Lower Grand River Designated as State Water Trail!
Lower Grand River Designated as State Water Trail!

The Lower Grand River is now an official water trail! The Michigan Department of Natural Resources approved the application submitted by LGROW and added the Lower Grand River to the list of 9 designated water trails in the State of Michigan.

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Ella CarrNovember 1, 2024
Keeping Our Watershed Clean With LGROW: Coffee with a Cop Presentation
Keeping Our Watershed Clean With LGROW: Coffee with a Cop Presentation

Do you know where your stormwater goes? That was the opening topic tackled by representatives from the Lower Grand River Organization of Watersheds during Coffee with a Cop on Oct. 10.

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Rachell NagorsenOctober 22, 2024
Ottawa Conservation District Receives $1 Million to Support Water Quality Monitoring Initiatives!
Ottawa Conservation District Receives $1 Million to Support Water Quality Monitoring Initiatives!

The Ottawa County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a nearly $1 million contract for OCD to conduct a new Water Quality Monitoring Initiative through the Ottawa County Water Resources Commissioner’s office.

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Guest UserJuly 30, 2024
Giant Stonefly: Michigan's State Insect?
Giant Stonefly: Michigan's State Insect?

Surprisingly, 48 states have state insects and state butterflies; more surprisingly, Michigan is one of two states that have neither. A Fifth grade class at Aberdeen Academy, a Grand Rapids Public School, want to change this.

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Matt BainApril 11, 2024
Fall MiCorps Sampling in the Rogue River
Fall MiCorps Sampling in the Rogue River

This past Fall, LGROW monitored water quality in the Rogue River Watershed using the MiCorps protocol. We had 30 volunteers and one LGROW staff member, Matt Bain (LGROW’s Aquatic Specialist), as the program lead.

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Matt BainDecember 5, 2023
New Grant Funding to Support Water Quality in the Rogue
New Grant Funding to Support Water Quality in the Rogue

The Kent Conservation District (KCD) and the Rogue River Watershed Partners (RRWP) recently received new grant funding from the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) to support and “expand previous conservation efforts” in the Rogue River Watershed. 

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Matt BainOctober 10, 2023Rogue River, Watershed, Grants, KCD, RRWP
GVMC Celebrates IRA Birthday with West Michigan Community
GVMC Celebrates IRA Birthday with West Michigan Community

GVMC is co-sponsoring an event next week with Congresswoman Hillary Scholten and Cory Connolly, Director of the Michigan Office of Climate and Energy to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act. 

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Cara DeckerAugust 14, 2023
Monitoring Agricultural Practices
Monitoring Agricultural Practices
Matt BainJuly 25, 2023Monitoring, Rogue River watershed, Sediment
Actions for Rivers
Actions for Rivers
Guest UserMay 23, 2023river restoration
Earth Day
Earth Day
Guest UserApril 12, 2023
Report highlights success of local stormwater permitee collaboration
Report highlights success of local stormwater permitee collaboration
Cara DeckerMarch 6, 2023stormwater, MS4, collaboration, LGROW, permit
Marketing RFP Consultant Questions Answered
Marketing RFP Consultant Questions Answered
Guest UserFebruary 16, 2023job opening, job opportunity
LGROW's Water Quality Data Repository
LGROW's Water Quality Data Repository
Guest UserFebruary 6, 2023job opening, job opportunity
Marketing Request For Proposal
Marketing Request For Proposal
Guest UserJanuary 23, 2023job opening, job opportunity
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