Putting bay-friendly stormwater grants within reach of homeowners

Protecting Choctawhatchee Bay depends partly on small, distributed stormwater fixes on private property: bio-swales that slow and filter runoff before it reaches the water. But the people best positioned to build them — individual homeowners — rarely have the technical vocabulary to size retention volume, interpret topography and soil, or navigate an environmental grant. That friction kills good projects before they start.

EcoGuardian pairs two technical tools — a Stormwater Retention Volume Calculator and an ERP Chapter 62-330 F.A.C. compliance reference — with a Bio-Swale Micro-Grant assistant To confirm before launch: confirm: live URL, e.g. grant.ecoguardian.ai. The assistant collects what an application actually needs (parcel ID, geolocation, topography and soil, an environmental-impact score) and helps a non-expert assemble a complete, credible submission. By design, the AI assists evaluation; it does not approve grants. Every recommendation is explainable, the inputs behind a score are inspectable, and a human reviewer makes the funding decision — the human-in-the-loop gate is the point, because public and grant dollars demand an auditable trail.

To confirm before launch: confirm: applications started / completed via the assistant, To confirm before launch: confirm: bio-swale projects funded to date, To confirm before launch: confirm: water-quality or runoff outcome, if measured. To confirm before launch: confirm: grant program / funding source backing the micro-grants.