COLUMBIA, MO. -- Governor Jay Nixon was in Columbia on Thursday to help improve water quality in Hinkson Creek.
Nixon said a $713,000 federal grant will be used to help reduce storm water runoff that affects Hinkson Creek as it runs through Boone County.
Boone County Public Works Officials will use the grant money over a 3 year period to reduce flooding and improve the water quality and health of aquatic life in Hinkson Creek.
One of the grant’s bigger projects is the retrofitting of a 10-acre site owned by the City of Columbia that does not treat storm water runoff.
Columbia Mayor Bob McDavid said, “We are committed to a healthy stream, a stream which is fully supportive of warm water aquatic life. That is our goal. Our commitment is also that the Hinkson Creek Water Shed will be a model urban stream for the country.”
The Governor and Missouri Department of Natural Resources Director Sara Parker Pauley visited Columbia, the Lake of the Ozarks and Table Rock Lake to announce 3 Clean Water Act grants for Missourians.
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