2019 - Watershed Based Funding Metro (Carver County WMO)
This project will improve water quality in Bavaria, Grace, Jonathan, Waconia and Hazeltine Lakes and West Chaska Creek in Carver County. Sediment and phosphorus loading to these waterbodies will be accomplished by: 1) retrofitting stormwater pipes with water quality treatment devices, 2) modifying stormwater ponds and installing iron-enhanced sand filters, and 3) stream restoration efforts to re-meander approximately 1,100 linear feet of a ditched segment of West Chaska Creek. This project is funded through the Carver County allocation of the Watershed-Based Funding Pilot Program for the Seven County Metropolitan Area.
Annie Felix-Gerth
Watershed Based Funding Metro 2019 - (a) $4,875,000 the first year and $4,875,000 the second year are for a pilot program to provide performance-based grants to local government units. The grants may be used to implement projects that protect, enhance, and restore surface water quality in lakes, rivers, and streams; protect groundwater from degradation; and protect drinking water sources. Projects must be identified in a comprehensive watershed plan developed under the One Watershed, One Plan or metropolitan surface water management frameworks or groundwater plans. Grant recipients must identify a nonstate match and may use other legacy funds to supplement projects funded under this paragraph.
This project will reduce phosphorus by 25 pounds per year and sediment by 3.5 tons per year to Lake Waconia. In addition, this project will reduce phosphorus by 25 pounds per year to Grace, Jonathan, and Hazeltine Lakes. A third component of this project will reduce sediment to West Chaska Creek by an estimated 2 tons per year. This project will also reduce phosphorus by 23 pounds of phosphorus per year to Lake Bavaria.
This project has resulted in an estimated annual reduction of 52 pounds of Phosphorus, 11 tons of Sediment, and 1 acre-feet of Volume Reduced.
LOCAL LEVERAGED FUNDS