POWJH received a nearly $100,000 EPA Environmental Education 2-year grant in 2022 and a $26,000 matching grant from the Community Foundation of Jackson Hole. During 2023, POWJH staff used these funds to teach lessons about our community’s unique watershed ecology and water quality issues to over 200 6th-grade students and 100 Advanced Placement Environmental Science and Integrated Science high school students. The 6th-grade students participated in an on-site field science day focused on water quality testing and examined algae samples under a microscope. The high school students took a tour of the Town of Jackson Wastewater Treatment Plant and participated in hosting a drinking water well testing event, during which they provided free test kits and instructed community members how to do their testing.
2021 EPA Environmental Education Grant
Date: 2022 - 2024
Status: Completed
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EPA Septic Cost Share Program
Date: Closed in 2024, Waitlist Open
Status: Completed
The POWJH Septic System Pumping Cost Share Program offers an incentive to encourage Teton County, WY residents to perform regular maintenance on individual septic systems, prevent groundwater contamination, and protect our Sole Source Aquifer that provides drinking water to nearly the entire population of the region.
Wyoming State Lands: Glamping Septic Facility Litigation
Date: 2023
Status: Current
While many have raised various objections to the "glamping" geodesic domes on WY State Trust Land on Teton Village Road, POWJH has been leading the legal charge against the facility septic system that threatens human health and Fish Creek.
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