2019 Well Sealing Cost-Share, Ramsey County SWCD
Ramsey County SWCD is applying to continue the implementation of its popular and successful well sealing cost-share program to help protect the groundwater, especially in highly vulnerable drinking water supply management areas, by permanently and professionally sealing between 115 and 140 abandoned wells in the county.
Projects and Practices 2019
Annie Felix-Gerth
for grants to protect and restore surface water and drinking water; to keep water on the land; to protect, enhance, and restore water quality in lakes, rivers, and streams; and to protect groundwater and drinking water, including feedlot water quality and subsurface sewage treatment system projects and stream bank, stream channel, shoreline restoration, and ravine stabilization projects. The projects must use practices demonstrated to be effective, be of long-lasting public benefit, include a match, and be consistent with total maximum daily load (TMDL) implementation plans, watershed restoration and protection strategies (WRAPS), or local water management plans or their equivalents. A portion of these funds may be used to seek administrative efficiencies through shared resources by multiple local governmental units.
We can quantify the number of wells sealed with grant funds, estimated at 115-140 based on past average costs.
The County provided cost-share funding to permanently sealed 120 wells in targeted areas within Ramsey County. Wells sealed were within the County but outside of the boundaries for the Capitol Region Watershed District and the City of North St. Paul, which operate their own well-sealing cost-share programs.
LOCAL LEVERAGED FUNDS