The Homer City Council passed a resolution at their last meeting on Sept. 8 approving an acquisition of real property for green infrastructure conservation. The land will be purchased using grant funds awarded in 2023 by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and marks the first land purchase to be funded by the grant.

In August 2023, the council approved Ordinance 23-46, accepting nearly $1.2 million in grant funding for the city’s ongoing Kachemak Sponge Green Infrastructure Stormwater Treatment System. The grant was awarded by NOAA to the University of Alaska Anchorage, which acts as the fiscal agent for the Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, for the purpose of acquiring wetlands and peatlands “to be preserved for conservation in perpetuity” as part of the K

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