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ActiveU.S. Environmental Protection Agency · 2026

SNEP Watershed Implementation Grants (SWIG)

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Agency: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Funding: Varies
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Status: Active
Eligibility: State and local governments, including city or township governments.

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SNEP Watershed Implementation Grants (SWIG) is sponsored by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Funds local priorities to preserve and restore the coastal environment in Southeast New England.

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SNEP Watershed Implementation Grants ~ Restore America's Estuaries Now more than ever, our nation’s most environmentally, economically, and culturally important waters need your help. A host of threats loom over the future of our coasts and the communities that rely on them. Sea-level rise, flooding, erosion and other impacts from a changing climate are impacting an increasing number of areas with increasing frequency.

Restore America’s Estuaries works to counter these and other threats with a host of partners nationwide. Your donation will help us engage local communities to bring about on-the-ground results, advance science and policy to conserve endangered areas across the country, and ensure the benefits of coastal restoration are shared by all communities.

If you prefer to donate by check, you may download our Donation Form and mail a check to: Restore America’s Estuaries 2300 Clarendon Blvd, Suite 603 Federal Employees: Our Combined Federal Campaign number is 12070. For a list of state nonprofit disclosures, please click here . If you have any questions, please call 703-524-0248 or email Lance Speidell.

SNEP Watershed Implementation Grants (SWIG) The annual SWIG Impact Report is out! Click HERE to read or download. SWIG26 Full Proposal Applicants Click Here SNEP 2025 Restoration Capital Minigrants Applicant and Grantee Resources In December, Rhode Island Trout Unlimited and partners, including the RI Dept.

of Environmental Management and Save The Bay, removed Sweet Pond Dam with funding from SNEP Watershed Implementation Grants (SWIG). This was a small dam located on the Carr River in Rhode Island’s Big River Management Area. Though the dam was removed by hand, a number of studies and surveys were required in order to obtain approval to remove it.

The project will help restore populations of wild brook trout in the Pawtuxet River watershed, along with habitat for other native species. Click on the thumbnail to play this brief video of the work underway! This interactive map shows the locations and descriptions of projects funded by SWIG in past years.

Click on a site pin to learn more about the project. In 2012, at the direction of Congress, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) created the Southeast New England Program (SNEP) , a comprehensive effort to restore and protect the region’s coastal waters and watersheds.

SNEP works in partnership with stakeholders in these states to promote a resilient ecosystem of clean water, healthy diverse habitats, and sustainable communities in Southeast New England. Download the SNEP Watershed Implementation One Pager To help restore clean water and healthy ecosystems to Southeast New England, Restore America’s Estuaries launched the Southeast New England Program (SNEP) Watershed Implementation Grants.

With financial support from the EPA, the grants target water pollution, habitat degradation, and other high-priority environmental issues, in order to foster sustainable coastal and watershed communities.

The geographic region eligible for SNEP Watershed Implementation Grants extends from Westerly, RI to Pleasant Bay on Cape Cod, encompassing the major estuaries of Narragansett Bay and Buzzards Bay, and their watersheds as far north as Worcester, Mass. It includes the south shore of Cape Cod as well as Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket, Block Island and the Elizabeth Islands. Please refer to this boundary map of the SNEP region.

SNEP Watershed Implementation Grants target integrated approaches to water quality and ecosystem restoration. SNEP recognizes that clean water, healthy habitats, resilient ecosystems, and prosperous communities are closely interconnected, and that strong partnerships offer the most effective means of meeting Southeast New England’s environmental challenges.

Clean water, healthy watersheds, and vibrant coastal ecosystems are essential to the communities of Southeast New England — a foundation of our region’s prosperity and quality of life. In Rhode Island and Massachusetts, clean water and healthy coastal ecosystems generate billions of dollars in economic value through beach-going, fishing, tourism, and many other uses.

Yet despite recent improvements, water pollution and ecosystem degradation threaten our most important natural assets. Check out EPA’s archived SNEP monthly newsletter for additional information on the program’s success in the region. RAE recently completed its first cooperative agreement with EPA, which funded SNEP Watershed Grants from 2018 – 2021, as well as most of the SNEP Restoration Capital Mini-Grants awarded earlier this year.

Read our report to EPA here, which covers the first four years of grantmaking under this program. For information on more recent grants, stay tuned for our year-end report, coming soon! Click here to download the full report 2023-2024 SWIG Year in Review Our new SWIG Program Impact Report is out for 2023!

Catch up on all the work supporting restoration and water quality improvement in the Southeast New England Region that SWIG recipients have carried out over 2023. Special thanks to our partners at EPA Region 1 and the SNEP Network, members of the SWIG Application Review Committee, and our numerous grantees and local partners for making this program a success!

Click here to download the full report Learn more about our recent work supporting restoration and water quality improvement in the Southeast New England Region. Special thanks to our partners at EPA Region 1 and the SNEP Network, members of the SWIG Application Review Committee, and our numerous grantees and local partners for making this program a success!

Click here to download the full report 2018-21 SNEP Watershed Grants Impact Report This report covers the first four years of SNEP grant-making under RAE’s partnership with EPA. Check it out! Click here to download the full report For more information about the SNEP Watershed Grants, email Thomas Ardito , Program Director, or call 401-575-6109.

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Eligibility Requirements

State and local governments, including city or township governments.

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According to the current listing, eligibility includes: State and local governments, including city or township governments. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.

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SNEP Watershed Implementation Grants (SWIG) is funded by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.

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Geographic Programs - Southeast New England Coastal Watershed Restoration Program

Geographic Programs - Southeast New England Coastal Watershed Restoration Program is sponsored by ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY. To develop and support the Southeast New England Program (SNEP) for coastal watershed restoration. SNEP is a geographically-based program intended to serve as a collaborative framework for advancing ecosystem resiliency, protecting and restoring water quality, habitat and ecosystem function, promoting the development of sustainable communities, and developing and applying innovative policy, science, and technology to environmental management in southeast coastal New England (eligibility map is available at: https://www.epa.gov/snep/background-information-southeast-new-england-program). A critical aspect of this framework is the integration of physical processes, water quality, and critical habitat at a regional, watershed, and/or landscape scale. SNEP's Strategic Plan under this framework includes goals for achieving, 1. a resilient ecosystem of safe and healthy waters, 2. thriving watersheds and natural lands, and 3. sustainable communities. Additional background information on SNEP can be found at the following website: www.epa.gov/snep. EPA intends to fund projects, either directly or via a pass-through organization, that address SNEP priorities, EPA's "Powering the Great American Comeback Initiative" Pillar 1: Clean Air, Land, and Water for Every American and Pillar 3: Permitting Reform, Cooperative Federalism, and Cross-Agency Partnership, and spur investments in regionally significant and landscape scale restoration projects through projects, networks, and/or partnerships among governmental and community resource managers, technology, scientific, and policy organizations, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), Tribes, and other groups. A major focus is to build regional capacity for environmental management, including developing and establishing robust institutional, monitoring, information, and technology frameworks that can offer more effective, transferable, and sustainable paths to restoring and protecting the southeast New England coastal watersheds. Through competitive funding announcements, EPA will outline specific program priorities and eligible activities in areas such as environmental, ecological, and/or habitat restoration planning and construction; ordinance adoption and implementation; technology and policy development, testing, and adoption; financing; monitoring, including methods, equipment, data analysis and interpretation; public understanding and engagement; technical training in new approaches; information sharing; implementation of nature-based solutions; and targeted/applied research. SNEP funding is provided to support technical assistance, and implementation grants through direct EPA awards, and subawards. Additional SNEP funding under the Infrastructure, Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) will support existing SNEP priorities and will begin to focus on achieving program goals. This listing is currently active. Program number: 66.129. Last updated on 2026-01-01.

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