River council awards assistance grants

NARROWSBURG — The Upper Delaware Council (UDC) on September 6 awarded $19,600 in annual Technical Assistance Grants (TAG) to fund nine projects furthering the efforts of the river management plan.

Grants will go to:

• Lumberland for $3,200 to identify and inventory historic barns of 50 years of age or more, to produce a permanent index, map, design descriptions and other related materials.
• Deerpark for $3,000 to develop a town website to promote the Upper Delaware and provide other town and local information.
• Highland for $2,900 to update the town’s zoning map with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) capabilities.
• Deerpark for $2,500 to similarly update that town’s zoning map.
• Lumberland for $2,500 to update campground regulations which will incorporated in town zoning.
• Delaware for $1,500 to create a brochure listing town land use regulations, local laws and a provide a town directory.
• Tusten for $1,400 to print and distribute maps and purchase and install signs depicting the boundaries of the town’s new wellhead protection overlay district.
• Sullivan County for $1,400, so the county and the Sullivan County Community College might conduct a water quality related, aquatic insect survey in the East and North branches of the Callicoon Creek.
• Cochecton for $1,200 to establish comprehensive standards for dog compounds which will be included in town zoning.

This year’s awards brings to amount in TAG grants awarded by the UDC over the past 13 years to $470,841.