Midwest tribes awarded EPA grants for water monitoring

The Environmental Protection Agency’s Midwest office has issued grants to four tribes in Kansas and Nebraska for water quality monitoring and other environmental protection programs, according to press releases from the agency. The grants include:

• $135,000 to the Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska to support the tribe’s Environmental Department which sometimes monitors surface water in cooperation with the EPA
• $39,942 to the Santee Sioux Nation of Nebraska for their Office of Environmental Protection, which conducts water quality monitoring under the Clean Water Act
• $3,500 to the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation in Kansas for groundwater and surface water monitoring, planning and training
• $257,106 to the Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas for their water quality program, including  monitoring streams, a lagoon, ponds and groundwater wells