2021 Lake Minnewaska Targeted Subwatershed Implementation Project Phase IV
This project will focus on protection of Lake Minnewaska by reducing sediment and phosphorus which are a result of massive gully erosion and eroding ravines that have been converted to row crop production. Pope SWCD has four landowners ready to implement 10 water and sediment control basins, one lined waterway, one grassed waterway, and one shoreline protection project. These projects have the potential to reduce sediment by 412 tons/year, and 330 pounds/year of phosphorus from entering the lake. We have targeted 54 implemented practices since 2014; this grant would continue this effort.
Annie Felix-Gerth
(Projects and Practices)(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.
Erosion and Sediment Control BMPs will reduce TSS by 412 T/year, and 330 lbs./year of TP and will add to an overall implementation effort in the Lake Minnewaska subwatersheds 54 practices implemented using grant funds in 2014, 2015, and 2016.
LOCAL LEVERAGED FUNDS