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Aquatic Habitat Grants
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for an Aquatic Habitat Matching Grant, the following criteria must apply to you and your project.
1. One of the following describes me or my group:
- • Individual
- • Non-profit/community group
- • Business owner
2. My project is located within the City of Seattle AND is in or adjacent to creek, pipe, or ditch that is part of the City’s drainage system or in a part of a waterway (creek, river, lake, Ship Canal, marine nearshore) that has been directly affected by the City’s drainage system.
For example, some of Seattle’s urban creeks experience high stormwater flows. This fast-moving water can cause changes to shorelines and channels and impact plants and animals living there.
See the map of Drainage Outfall Locations at right for examples of possible project locations that are linked to the City’s drainage system.
3. My project provides a direct public benefit to aquatic habitat that has been directly affected by the City of Seattle’s drainage system operation.
4. My project matches the City’s resources at least 100% with community or private resources. The match may include:
- • cash,
- • volunteer labor,
- • donated land or easements,
- • donated supplies or equipment,
- • donated professional services, or
- • other non-City funds.
Neighborhood Matching Fund grants, other SPU grants or other City resources will not be considered or included as a match to the Aquatic Habitat Matching Grants.
Examples of eligible projects
- • Removal of fish passage blockages that are located on private property and are in the City’s drainage system or created by the drainage system.
- • Removal of non-native invasive plant species from aquatic habitats and restoration of native plant species and riparian vegetation where high flows in or from the City’s drainage system have caused erosion and disturbance.
- • Removal of bank armoring (i.e. bulkheads) where it has been installed to protect from flows associated with the City’s drainage system.
- • Re-establishment of creek connectivity where connectivity has been disrupted in or by the City’s drainage system.
- • Restoration of channel or shoreline complexity where impacted by high flows due to the City’s drainage system.
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