The Maryland Department of Natural Resources has announced it is awarding $11.2 million in grants from the Whole Watershed Fund for restoration efforts in five key watersheds across the state. The five-year Whole Watershed Fund program is now in its second year and supports 30 projects in Antietam Creek, Baltimore Harbor, Newport Bay, the Severn River, and the Upper Choptank River as well as three agricultural areas and two cross-state collaborative areas.

Maryland lawmakers have announced nearly $3 million in federal funds to go towards habitat and wetland restoration projects throughout Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay watershed.