USDA to present check to Apalachicola Riverkeeper

YOU ARE INVITED to join the USDA-Rural Development office when it presents a $50,000 “check” to the Apalachicola Riverkeeper.  The event will celebrate the award of a USDA Rural Business Enterprise Grant for the Apalachicola Riverkeeper’s “Navigational/Environmental Flow Modeling Project”.  

Through the grant, the Apalachicola Riverkeeper has hired modeler Steve Leitman as a Technical Assistant to work with the Tri-Rivers Waterway Development Association to conduct comparative modeling to determine how the US Army Corps of Engineers can manage releases from the federal reservoirs on the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River System to support ecological integrity and navigation.

Date:                           Monday, August 9, 2010
Time:                           3:30 p.m. EDT

Location:                     Riverfront Park, Water Street between Avenues D and E,

                                    Apalachicola, Florida 32320

The following USDA employees will be attending:

Richard Machek, USDA State Director from Gainesville (Speaker)

Ellen Boukari, USDA State Public Affairs Coordinator

Joseph P. Fritz, USDA Area Director from Marianna (Speaker)

Mary Gavin, USDA Area Specialist          

Dewanna Smith, USDA Area Assistant/Public Information Coordinator

The following Apalachicola Riverkeeper staff/contractors will be attending:

Dan Tonsmeire, Riverkeeper

Andy Smith, Executive Director

Steve Leitman, Technical Assistant

For information or directions call:      Kayd Selden, Outreach Coordinator, Apalachicola

                                                            Riverkeeper, 850-653-8936

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