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Kenai Watershed Forum asks Kenai City Council to restore $5,000 annual contribution for river monitoring
Summary
Kenai Watershed Forum asked the Kenai City Council to resume its prior $5,000 yearly contribution to a Kenai River baseline water-quality monitoring project and described current funding, partners and a near-term grant deadline tied to matching support.
Benjamin Meyer, environmental scientist and water-quality coordinator for the Kenai Watershed Forum, asked the Kenai City Council to restore the city’s annual contribution to the forum’s Kenai River Baseline Water Quality Monitoring Project to $5,000 — the level the city provided from 2011 through 2023. The forum’s current local contribution from the City of Kenai is $1,500, Meyer told the council during scheduled public comment.
Meyer said the forum has 10 of the 16 signers it is seeking on a memorandum of understanding and is asking the City of Kenai to resume the $5,000 annual contribution to form the baseline operating budget for the monitoring effort. He showed a short video describing the program, said a comprehensive report assessing the monitoring results is due within the next year, and explained that the group treats the monitoring as a twice-yearly “health checkup” for the river.
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