• The Maggie Valley Sanitary District received $925,000 to conserve the Campbell Lick tracts in Haywood County. 
• The Western N.C. Stream Initiative received $425,000, awarded to the Resource Institute. 
• The Stingy Branch area of Haywood County received $237,000 for a restoration project through the Resource Institute. 
• The Southwestern N.C. Resource and Development Council received $500,000 for a restoration project on Jonathan Creek in Haywood County. 
• A 504-acre property at Simp Gap in Graham County that Mainspring Conservation Trust is working to conserve received $605,000. Most of the property is within the Appalachian Trail’s viewshed. 
• A pair of projects to conserve land in Jackson County owned by developer America’s Home Place received a combined $1.6 million. Mainspring received $578,000 for the 470-acre Shut-In Creek tract and The Conservation Fund received $1.02 million for the 441.5-acre Blackrock Tract. 
• Mainspring received $156,000 to extend the Little Tennessee River Greenway at Cartoogechaye Creek in Macon County.

The Clean Water Management Trust Fund was established in 1996 to protect the state’s drinking water sources. With more than $55 million in active contracts, the fund is also tasked with conserving and protecting the state’s natural resources, cultural heritage and military installations.