Shingle Creek Connections II Stream Restoration
The purpose of the Shingle Creek Connections II stream restoration project is to improve water quality and biotic integrity in Shingle Creek in the cities of Brooklyn Park and Brooklyn Center. Shingle Creek is an Impaired Water for low dissolved oxygen, excess E. coli, and an impaired macroinvertebrate community. Approximately 1,750 linear feet between Regent/Noble Avenues N and Brooklyn Boulevard will be improved by thinning trees, establishing native vegetation in the buffer and on the banks, repairing erosion, enhancing habitat, and introducing low-flow sinuosity and reaeration opportunities with rock vanes and root wads. Reaches upstream and downstream have been restored; this is a ?missing link? segment that will complete a continuous 2.5-mile corridor of urban stream restoration. The outcome will be enhanced habitat for aquatic and upland wildlife, improved water quality, and improved stream aeration.
Annie Felix-Gerth
(b) $16,000,000 the first year and $16,000,000 the second year are for grants to local government units 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 this money may be used to seek administrative efficiencies through shared resources by multiple local governmental units. Up to 20 percent of this appropriation is available for land-treatment projects and practices that benefit drinking water.
-Reduce annual streambank soil loss from 26.8 to 6.3 tons/year and TP load from 5.4 to 1.3 lbs/year
-Increase reaeration to minimize time that DO concentration falls below 5 mg/L.
-Improve MSHA score from 39.7 (Poor) to at least 50 points (Fair)
This project achieved the proposed outcomes of 4.1 lbs/year of TP reduction and 20.5 tons/year of TSS reduction through a stream restoration of 1,750 linear feet benefitting Shingle Creek, per the approved work plan.
LOCAL LEVERAGED FUNDS