JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — A new $16 million grant has been accepted by the city of Jacksonville from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The grant will be used to begin to help restore many watersheds in the area. The waterways can lead into another and then into the New River which flows throughout Onslow County and eventually into the Atlantic Ocean.
“The grant itself will help restore entire watersheds, instead of fragmentation of a small grant here or small grant there, NOAA allowed us to go for the larger dollars in order to put a watershed plan together,” City of Jacksonville Stormwater Manager Pat Donovan-Brandenburg said…