2019 - Watershed Based Funding Metro (Rice Creek WD)
The Urban Stormwater Remediation Cost-Share Program is a grant program which funds capital improvements, constructed by counties, cities, villages, townships, school districts, libraries, and other entities, to enhance water quality, or increase groundwater recharge. The program criteria will be revised to be consistent with the eligible expense criteria for the Watershed Based Funding Program.
Annie Felix-Gerth
$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.
Total volume, TP, or TSS pollutant reduction targets /estimates will be identified for each project application. An estimated 1.9-5.0 lbs annual TP removal and 568-3,000 lbs annual TSS removal will occur through practices like biofiltration/infiltration, stormwater reuse, and shoreline stabilization.
This project has resulted in an estimated annual reduction of 96.4 lbs of Phosphorus, 2.662 tons of Sediment, 66.8 acre-feet of Volume Reduced
LOCAL LEVERAGED FUNDS