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Gulf Restoration Network

Contact
Matt Rota
PO Box 2245
New Orleans, LA 70176
matt@healthygulf.org
(504) 525-1528

On the Web: www.healthygulf.org

Activity: Clean Water for a Healthy Gulf program

Geographic location: We focus on the state of Louisiana and Mississippi, although we work with groups in states throughout the Gulf of Mexico and in the Mississippi River Basin

Brief activity description: The GRN's program involves our staff in monitoring state (MS & LA) and federal regulatory activities. We monitor development of state water quality criteria, including nutrient criteria, state listing and delisting of polluted waters, and development of total maximum daily loads. We also conduct workshop to engage affected communities in efforts to influence state and federal agency actions.

Primary goals or focus:

• Nutrient reduction
• Wetlands restoration
• Water quality improvement
• Policy development
• Nutrient standards development/implementation
• Education/information sharing
• Organizing/networking/coordinating

Projected outcomes/impacts, if known: Our overall goal is to reduce nutrient pollution entering the Mississippi River, with an eye to obtaining the 30% reduction needed to reduce the Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico.

Activity type:

• Research
• Policy
• Regulatory

Scale of activity:

• Watershed
• State
• Regional
• National

Other partners and participants: The Gulf Restoration Network is a member organization with fifty group members and several hundred individual members.

Timeline/duration: multi-year (presently operating on a three-year timeline)

Funding sources:

• Foundations
• Members
• Individual donors