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�O�.DEc' <br /> - C <br /> v oe <br /> ��� <br /> %[LINO�S <br /> July 15, 1997 <br /> PUBLIC WORKS MEMORANDUM <br /> NO. 97 - 73 <br /> MEMORANDIJM TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council <br /> FROM: James L. Williams, Jr., City Manager <br /> Bruce A. McNabb, Director of Public Works <br /> Keith D. Alexander, Lake Manager � <br /> SUBJECT: Illinois Environmental Protection Agency Water Pollution Control <br /> Grant and Macon County Soil&Water Conservation District Contract <br /> for Grant Administration <br /> The City of Decatur has been awazded an Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) <br /> Water Pollution Control Grant to improve Lake Decatur water quality. The IEPA will contribute <br /> $111,000 (60%) and the City will contribute $74,000 (40%) during the two-year project. City <br /> funds are designated for this grant in this fiscal year's Water Capital Fund Budget. A copy of the <br /> grant contract is attached. <br /> The grant will accomplish two items: <br /> • Provide one-on-one technical education sessions with at least 45% of all Lake Decatur <br /> watershed farmers, fertilizer sales firms and farm management firms. These sessions will <br /> explain sediment, nitrate and other agricultural water quality improvement strategies at <br /> individual farmsteads and farm fields. Similar work in the Champaign and Ford County <br /> area of the Lake Decatur watershed has demonstrated that one-on-one sessions are <br /> highly effective. <br /> • Provide an additional $108,042 in funding to the City's current water quality <br /> improvement cost share program, which designs, implements and builds specific water <br /> quality improvements. <br />