Anne Arundel County Watershed Restoration Grant Program Final Report Form Page 1 of 3

Anne Arundel County Watershed

RestorationGrant Program

Final Report Narrative Questions

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Complete the final report narrative questions below. After completing your narrative questions, save this document on your computer and then submit the document via your Chesapeake Bay Trust Online Grant System account. You can access your account using this link

1. Grantee Information

Organization Name:

Project Leader:

Grant Number:

Date:

2. Project Summary

  1. Describe the project and results achieved. Provide before, during, and after photos of the project. This section should also include information such as the actual acreage or linear feet that were restored/enhanced/protected or created, and how this measurement was determined.
  1. In light of the Trust’s commitment to the advancement of diversity in its grant-making, please provide demographic information regarding the community or population that benefited from or were served by the project. Describe how the population and/or community were involved in the planning, development, and implementation of the project, and if applicable in the development of this report.

3. Anne Arundel County Watershed Restoration Grant Program Outcomes

  1. If your project included the implementation of one or more stormwater best management practices (BMPs):
  2. Provide a site map with the BMP’s location clearly identified. If you were required to produce as-built drawing of record for the implemented BMP(s), please provide them as a separate upload to the Trust’s online portal.Refer to your grant award letter to confirm if this requirement.
  3. Complete the chart below foreach implemented BMP. The BMP designer/engineer should be able to assist you in providing this information.
  4. Please note, if you are completing a stream restoration or living shoreline project, you do not need to complete this table unless there are upland BMP’s included in your project. For stream restoration and living shoreline projects, you will need to contract the Trust for an additional form that will need to be completed and submitted with your final report.

Practice Type (rain garden, bioswale, bioretention, permeable pavers, impervious removal, etc.)
Drainage Area (in square feet) contributing to the implemented BMP
Impervious Area (in square feet) existing within the Drainage Area contributing to the implemented BMP
Impervious Area (in square feet) removed within the Drainage Area contributing to the implemented BMP
Volume of Stormwater (in cubic feet) captured by implemented BMP
Surface Area (in square feet) of implemented BMP
Storm Event (in inches) treated by implemented BMP
Curve Number (as provided by the BMP’s designer/engineer)
Calculated reduction of Total Nitrogen (in pounds per year) from implemented BMP
Calculated reduction of Total Phosphorous (in pounds per year) from implemented BMP
Calculated reduction of Total Suspended Solids (in pounds per year) from implemented BMP
  1. Describe any monitoring and maintenance that has taken place. When will monitoring results become available? What are the maintenance plans beyond the life of this grant funding?

4. Project evaluation and lessons learned

  1. Discuss the project’s goal(s) and evaluation(s). Include how the project measured success to meet the goal(s) and to report the outcome(s) as project deliverables.
  2. Discuss the greatest successes.
  3. Discuss the greatest challenges, including the lessons learned, and potential roadblocks to future progress.
  4. Based on the results of the project, how would you refine and improve your project or approach in the future?
  5. What advice would you give someone considering a similar project?

5. Transferability and sustainability

  1. How will the results of your work be used by others?
  2. Was the project or will the project be transferred to other locations?
  3. How will these efforts be sustained in the future?
  1. Final Project Deliverables
  1. Provide all final products (e.g., data resulting from audience research, completed behavior change plans,educational documents,BMP design, manual, lesson plan, etc.) and any other additional deliverables as outlined in your grant application and modified through any contingencies.

Submit your Final Report Budget Form Spreadsheet in the online grant management system to document the approved funds that were spent for the project. Any unused funds must be refunded to the Trust.For the final report budget submission:

  • Provide the required final report budget form spreadsheet that reflects the approved budget items.
  • Provide a complete accounting of expenditures to date; if required in your grant agreement please also include all invoices, receipts, and an accounting of personnel costs, such as copies of timesheets (if personnel time was used) andgroup all receipts, invoices, and copies of timesheets (if personnel time was used) by budget category type (e.g., supplies, contractual, travel, etc.) and number each item to correspond with specific budget line item expenditures reported.

DISCLAIMER: By submitting photos and videos in your report, you are acknowledging ownership and copyright of the photos and videos submitted. The copyright will remain with the photographer; however, the Trust reserves the right to publish all items in publications, websites, advertising and promotional materials. You also confirm that you have written consent from all subjects in the photos/video submitted including if any subjects are minors under the age of eighteen.

You are required to submit this report online. Directions for submitting online:

  1. Sign into your account using this link and the same username and password as when you applied.
  2. Once signed in click on the Requirements tab.
  3. If you do not see your requirement, use the dropdown on the right and in the middle of the page to shift between “Show: New” and “Show: In Progress”.
  4. You should see below the yellow bar at least 2 links. One link is your Final Report.
  5. Click on the Final Report link and follow the instructions.
  6. Once complete, click Submit & Review and make sure you have uploaded and entered all of the necessary information.
  7. If so, click Submit.

To confirm your requirement was successfully submitted use the dropdown to shift between “Show: In Progress” and “Show: Submitted Requirements”.