Grants: Water Resources

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Great Lakes Bay Regional Solar Energy Initiative

June 2010

This project requests WIN support of a project of the Great Lakes Bay Economic Development Partnership (GLBEDP). The effort, the Solar Energy Initiative, involves the cooperation of the three regional economic development in a united effort to establish the Great Lakes Bay Region as a “hub” for solar energy business development. Specifically, the GLBEDP is requesting funding to support marketing and communication, the development of “shovel-ready” sites, and local education and mobilization. These activities are specific recommendations of analysis completed by consultants in 2008.

Setting the stage for the future of the Shiawassee Flats

June 2010

This project requests funding to support the development of a hydrogeomorphic analysis of the Shiawassee Flats area – a 40,000 acre area in Saginaw County. The purpose of the project is two-fold: determine the historical (pre-settlement) land use in the flats to help determine the direction and potential success of future restoration activities, and to support decision making as it relates to the economic efficiency of activities at the flats

Cedar River Land Registry Program

June 2010

Midland’s Little Forks Conservancy proposes to create a unique land registry program in Clare and Gladwin County’s Cedar River Watershed. Over the past 4 years, Little Forks has been working to acquire land and conservation easements in the Cedar River Watershed to protect the water quality of one of the Saginaw Bay Watershed’s few cold water trout-streams. The registry program will provide an opportunity for land-owners, who may not be ready for permanent land conservation to join others in a voluntary program. This registry will then allow the conservancy to keep track of these properties, and be first in line should the property owners move toward more permanent conservation.

Assessment of WIN-supported Fish Passage Projects

December 2009

This project proposes to implement applied research at the site of the proposed fish passage project at
Frankenmuth. While these fish passage projects have been implemented in several areas across the Great
Lakes, this site will represent only the third time that the application of the “rock ramp” passage technique
has been used in Michigan and will be the largest project of its kind in the Great Lakes. To that end, this
project provides a unique and important opportunity to look at this effort from a pre-rock-ramp and post-rockramp
perspective. This WIN investment will support the on-the-ground analysis of how well these structures
pass fish, as well as provide early data on the success of fish spawning activity above the dam. The project
will also engage the public through presentations by Central Michigan University researchers on the
importance of fish passage projects as well as provide important data to decision makers throughout the
region about the effectiveness of these projects. As an added piece of the project, researchers will asses
some basic qualitative economic information from the community of Frankenmuth about the public
satisfaction with the project. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources and U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service will be joining CMU on this project and providing staff and financial support as available.

Saginaw Bay WIN “Green Village” at the Tall Ships Celebration

December 2009

The 2010 Tall Ship Celebration in Bay City marks the only Michigan stop of the Tall Ship Challenge in 2010.
Anticipating more than 100,000 people coming to visit the event, an economic impact of over $10 million is
anticipated during the course of the fleet’s stay in Bay City. The “Green Village” will be a new, but important,
feature at the event and will give visitors a chance to experience eco-friendly products, services, and ideas
that they can use long after the event. Attendees will learn about what local companies and organizations
are doing to make our region more sustainable.

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