Overview
The West Virginia Stream Partners Program is a cooperative effort among multiple state agencies and is housed
within the WVDEP's Division of Water and Waste Management. In 1996 the West Virginia Legislature passed HB
4497. This action amended 60CSR4 of West Virginia Code and created the Stream Partners Program (SPP).
SPP is a grant program created to support the efforts of local stream partners known as watershed groups.
A Stream Partner is a community-based organization comprised of local community members, industry, environmental groups,
outdoorsmen, government, landowners and more. These stakeholders come together to improve the quality of life in and
around their streams and throughout the watershed.
The Legislature appropriates an annual $100,000 from general revenue funds to be distributed as $5,000 seed
grants to these organizations to complete watershed improvement projects. These grants are awarded when an application
is submitted and approved by participating agencies' leadership.
Story Map
West Virginia is known as the Mountain State, but it is the rivers and streams that carve the topography. As it pours off hillsides,
cascades down mountain streams, meanders through valleys and sleepily flows on rivers, water is the sustaining lifeblood of our communities,
our identity and our way of life.
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