MARQUETTE, MI-- Two Upper Peninsula communities will receive money from the Environmental Protection Agency to improve water quality at their beaches.
The funding comes through the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and aims to make beaches safer in Michigan and Wisconsin.
The City of Marquette has been given $179,700 to improve water quality at two of its beaches. Officials will use the grant to implement green management practices to reduce bacterial, algal, and chemical contamination that’s been identified through testing.
And two beaches in Sault Ste. Marie will benefit from a grant totaling just over $217,000. The money will be used to install a rain garden, infiltration trenches, small dunes, plantings of native beach grass, a filtration system, and riprap.
