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Environmental Grants
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Environmental Grants
Each year Council applies to various state and federal agencies and private organisations for funding to complete environmental projects in the Maitland Local Government Area. Following is a summary of grants Council has recently received.
2006:
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Grant Title
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Works to be funded
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Amount Received
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| Hunter Central Rivers Catchment Management Authority |
Funding of the 2006 Environmental Youth Forum |
$6,677 |
| Community Water Grant |
Native planting at the new Woodberry Family Centre to reduce erosion and prevent sediment and nutrients entering the nearby wetlands |
$16,364 |
| Urban Sustainability Grant |
Project involves education, capital works, maintenance programs, strategic planning, studies of sensitive catchments, review and assessment of urban water management in the Maitland Local Government Area |
$249,600 |
| Australian Government |
Host a Green Corps Team to work on environmental projects |
Funding provided to Northumberland Network with works carried out in the Maitland Local Government Area |
2007:
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Grant Title
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Works to be funded
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Amount Received
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| Green Power Consumer Education Campaign |
Promotion of GreenPower and Energy Conservation wtihin the community |
$7,500 |
| Environmental Restoration and Rehabilitation Project (NSW Environmental Trust) |
Project involves archaelogical survey, weed management, planting of native seddlings, and development and distribution of educational material in relation to Woodberry Swamp |
$83,660 |
| Sustainable Coastal Wetlands Project (Wetland Care Australia) |
Project involves erection of stock-proof fencing, off-stream watering points, a vegetation survey and planting of native seddlings, and development and distribution of educational material in relation to Wentworth Swamp |
$20,000 |
| Weeds Partnership Project (Hunter-Central Rivers Catchment Management Authority) |
To trial different control methods and raise awareness of African Olive as weed |
$39,400 |
| Incentives Project (Hunter-Cental Rivers Catchment Management Authority) |
Suppression of Gleditsea at two riparian sites along Wallis Creek |
$10,700 |
| River Paramedics Program (Conservation Volunteers Australia and Coal and Allied Trust) |
Implementation of the Wallis and Fishery Creek Rivercare Plan through protection activities including weeding, revegetation, erosion control and rubbish removal |
$15,000 |
2008: Grant Title | Works to be funded | Amount Received | | Department of the Environment and Water Resources - Australian Government Inventory Grant | Completion of Milestone Five Emissions Inventory as a part of the Cities for Climate Protection Program | $4,950 | | NSW Environmental Trust | Enhancing Tenambit Wetland with an Educational Walking Circuit | $48,600 | | Hunter Resource Recovery | Maitland Environmental Youth Forum | $3,000 | | NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change | Litter Blitz along New England Highway from Thornton to Aberdeen with a cigarette butt blitz in a CBD of each of the Council LGAs | $28,097.13 | | NSW Environmental Trust | Groundwater assessment of the East Maitland Gasworks site | $136,367 (undertaken as a staged process, and funds utilised depending on results) | | Stormwater Levy Contribution | Greening Plan Implementation | $60,000 |
2009: Grant Title | Works to be funded | Amount Received | | NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water | Litter Education along New England Highway from Thornton to Camberwell with a cigarette butt blitz in a CBD of each of the Council LGAs | $33,000 |
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