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Clermont Soil and Water outlines $3.5 million plan to stabilize eroding Lower East Fork banks
Summary
Clermont Soil and Water and partners described a design-build restoration for about 1 mile of the Lower East Fork stream segment, identified by Ohio EPA as impaired, and said the project has been recommended for up to $3.5 million in WRSP funding and could begin construction in 2026 if permits and weather allow.
Clermont County soil-and-water officials on May 7 described a design-build project to stabilize about a 1-mile stretch of the Lower East Fork of the Little Miami River, a segment Ohio EPA has listed as impaired for stream-bank erosion and sedimentation.
Becky McClatchy, watershed program manager for Clermont Soil and Water Conservation District, told the Board of County Commissioners the project focuses on chronic bank failures that are generating sediment and transporting nutrients downstream. "We know we have at least half of our streams that are not meeting state water quality standards," McClatchy said, and she identified nutrient and…
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