[epa-ej] Blog: Taking Back the Streets: Restoring a Watershed One Community at a Time

Blog: Taking Back the Streets: Restoring a Watershed One Community at a Time

Check out our latest blog post, Restoring a Watershed One Community at a Time by Alicia Neal. In today's post, Alicia talks about how an EPA Small Grant funded a rain garden which not only helped to offset runoff pollution and mitigate floods in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, but also brought together community members to reconnect after the damage of Hurricane Katrina.

Also, check out our new Climate Justice in Action Series, which focuses on reframing the conversation on climate change to include environmental justice issues. Read our kickoff post featuring a video from Administrator McCarthy, and contribute success stories from your local area on our interactive climate justice map. In the most recent post in the series, Sherrell Dorsey discusses the positive, transformative impact that community planning and an HUD grant have had on Bridgeport, a low-income community which was further devastated by Hurricane Sandy.

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Link: http://blog.epa.gov/ej/2014/09/restoring-a-watershed/

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