BETTENDORF, IOWA (September 24, 2019) — The Terracon Foundation announced a $2,500 grant to Living Lands and Waters, a river-cleanup organization that hosts river-cleanups, educational workshops, tree-plantings, invasive-species removal projects, and other key conservation efforts in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Indiana, and Tennessee.
To date, the Foundation has granted more than $2 million to community organizations, universities, dependents of employees, and for disaster-relief efforts. The Terracon Foundation encourages employees to submit grant-requests for organizations focused on education and the built-and-natural environment.
Kathleen Logan, office manager in Terracon’s Bettendorf office, championed the grant-application. The grant funds will be used to fund educational workshops and outreach programs. Through these programs, Living Lands and Waters aims to educate approximately 5,500 local children on recycling, waste-reduction, water-conservation, and environmental stewardship; engage 4,000 local citizens to help harvest and plant trees; and engage 1,200 volunteers to remove more than 90 acres of invasive plants.
“Living Lands and Waters is a homegrown organization making a huge difference not only here in the Quad Cities, but in many parts of the country,” Logan said. “The crew works tirelessly cleaning up rivers and watersheds, as well as educating people in conservation efforts. In 2018, Terracon employees planted trees in the Quad Cities that had been ravaged by a tornado, so I saw firsthand the impact Living Lands and Waters makes in communities across the United States.”
Headquartered in East Moline, Illinois, Living Lands and Waters is a 501 (c)(3) environmental organization established by Chad Pregracke in 1998. Spending up to nine months a year living and traveling on a barge, the Living Lands and Waters' crew hosts river-cleanups, watershed-conservation initiatives, workshops, tree-plantings, and other key conservation efforts. Since the organization was founded, Living Lands and Waters has grown to be the only “industrial strength” river-cleanup organization of its kind in the world. For more information about Living Lands &Waters, visit livinglandsandwaters.org
The Terracon Foundation was established with a goal to reach out and become a real part of the lives of Terracon employees and the communities where they live and work. For more information about the Foundation and other organizations that have received Foundation grants, please visit terracon.com/foundation.
Terracon is an employee-owned engineering consulting firm with more than 4,500 employees providing environmental, facilities, geotechnical, and materials services from more than 150 offices with services available in all 50 states. Terracon ranks 24th on Engineering News-Record’s 2019 list of Top 500 Design Firms. For additional information about Terracon, visit terracon.com.
