2024/2025 Yellow Medicine River Watershed Based Funding
The purpose of the Watershed Based Funding is to address priority concern 1, mitigate altered hydrology and
minimize flooding and priority concern 2, minimize the transport of sediment, excess nutrients, and bacteria. The
goal for the 2024/2025 is to reduce 150 tons of sediment per year, increase storage by 100 acre-feet per year,
reduce nitrogen by 5300 lbs per year and to reduce phosphorus by 500 lbs per year. Grant funds will also be
used for technical staffing in order to have the capabilities of implementing the priority BMPs in the seven
priority sub-watersheds.
Annie Felix-Gerth
(a) $39,500,000 the first year and $39,500,000 the second year are for grants to implement state-approved watershed-based plans. The grants may be used to implement projects or programs that protect, enhance, and restore surface PreviouswaterNext quality in lakes, rivers, and streams; protect groundwater from degradation; and protect drinking PreviouswaterNext sources. Projects must be identified in a comprehensive watershed plan developed under the One Watershed, One Plan program and seven-county metropolitan groundwater or surface PreviouswaterNext management frameworks as provided for in Minnesota Statutes, chapters 103B, 103C, 103D, and 114D. Grant recipients must identify a nonstate match and may use other legacy funds to supplement projects funded under this paragraph. This appropriation may be used for: (1) implementing state-approved plans, including within the following watershed planning areas (see Chapter 40 Article 2 Section 6(a) (2) for the list of watershed planning areas: seven-county metropolitan groundwater or surface PreviouswaterNext management frameworks; and(3) other comprehensive watershed management plan planning areas that have a board-approved and local-government-adopted plan as authorized in Minnesota Statutes, section 103B.801. The board must establish eligibility criteria and determine whether a planning area is ready to proceed and has the nonstate match committed.
Reduce sediment 300 tons/year; reduce nitrogen by 2500 lbs/yr; reduce phosphorus 800 lbs/year. Individual
practices will use field scale estimators.
LOCAL LEVERAGED FUNDS