August 2nd, 2023 by WCBC Radio

Maryland’s Department of Natural Resources has awarded more than $3 million in competitive grants for 13 climate resilience projects.  The grants will help communities design and construct solutions to withstand flooding and other weather-related events.   The projects selected will reduce risk for vulnerable communities, incorporate climate change data and information into existing plans and policies and develop nature-based or natural solutions to help control flooding.  Grant funding was awarded to Allegany County for Trout Unlimited to construct a stream restoration project at Sand Spring Run Stream with riparian buffer plantings to reconnect the floodplain and stabilize eroding stream banks.