Louisiana DEQ Announces Funding

The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality is announcing that they have been awarded approximately $43 million in stimulus funds for Louisiana projects. These funds provided through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 will assist state and local governments finance many of the overdue improvements to wastewater and fund green projects. These funds will support 55 municipalities in the State covering forty-two parishes. Cumulatively, the projects will serve more than 216,000 Louisiana citizens. For more information on all the stimulus funding that Louisiana is receiving for the DEQ, click here.

Recovery.gov has a complete list of how much stimulus money Louisiana will receive, and here is Louisiana's website for stimulus tracking.