The Daily Freeman is reporting the New York Department of Environmental Conservation announced Tue., Oct. 13, awards to the village of Catskill and Bard College that will support projects intended to increase resiliency to flooding, protect water quality and conserve natural resources in the Hudson River Estuary. The village of Catskill will receive $42,500 to complete a risk and engineering review of its wastewater system and to implement the recommendations from the “Resilient Catskill" report. The village will also receive a second grant in the amount of $25,500 to fund a Hudson River Shoreline Flooding Plan. Bard College will receive nearly $45,000 to support the development of a science-based community stewardship called the Saw Kill Watershed Community Group. Other awards went to the city of Kingston, Ulster County, Riverkeeper and the Orange County Water Authority. Read the full story in the Daily Freeman.