The Chesapeake Bay Trust’s Anne Arundel County Watershed Restoration Grant Program is Now Open!

Explore the Request for Proposal

The Anne Arundel County Watershed Restoration Grant Program is a partnership between the Trust, the Anne Arundel County Bureau of Watershed Protection and Restoration, and the City of Annapolis.  This award program aims to improve water quality in the County’s local streams and waterways, as called for in the County’s Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) Permit and County and City of Annapolis’ Stormwater Management Inventory and Watershed Improvement Plan, which require reductions in storm flow volume and pollutants entering the County’s waterways.

What This Funds:

The Anne Arundel County Watershed Restoration Grant Program will fund projects to reduce pollutants through the implementation of watershed restoration practices. Projects must accomplish on-the-ground restoration that treats rainwater runoff from impervious surfaces at a cost-effective price or demonstrate the accomplishment of another metric that will help the County and City meet local water quality and runoff reduction improvement goals. Applications under this award program that demonstrate sound design and cost efficiency in meeting this goal will be most competitive. To demonstrate this, applicants will be required to provide sound technical designs and project budgets.

Program Tracks:

  • Track 1: Watershed planning projects (City of Annapolis only)
  • Track 2: Design project
  • Track 3: Small-scale restoration implementation projects
  • Track 4: Large-scale restoration implementation projects

We encourage you to reach out early to discuss project ideas and schedule a site visit. For detailed information, visit our website: https://cbtrust.org/grants/anne-arundel-county-watershed-restoration/

Application Deadline: Applications are due by 4:00 pm on March 20, 2025.