SUQUAMISH — A troublesome culvert near the mouth of Chico Creek will be removed, thanks to a $600,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency.

The grant, made to the Suquamish Tribe, is one of 36 grants announced Tuesday by the EPA as part of a $30 million appropriation to the Puget Sound Estuary Program. Tribes and local governments throughout the region are the recipients of all but two grants, which are destined for state agencies.

Three other projects in Kitsap County got grants totaling more than $2 million. They include a comprehensive watershed plan for protecting Gorst Creek, pollution monitoring along the county’s marine shoreline, and a project to reduce human impacts to the shoreline ecosystem.

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