2021 Metro Miss. River East - Vadnais Lake Area WMO
The first partition of the WBIF grant funding will be implemented to provide additional funding to VLAWMO's Landscape Cost Share program to implement at least 1 BMP annually ('21-'23), with an annual reduction of at least 0.3 lbs/TP. The Cost Share partition of the grant will target the Lambert Creek, Goose Lake, and Gem Lake subwatersheds, and will implement newly-updated VLAWMO Cost Share Program policy for 2021, partnering with local partners to target upcoming street and stormwater projects.
The second partition of grant funds will be targeting nutrient-impaired waterbodies within 5 subwatersheds, VLAWMO will implement a BMP within the Gilfillan-Tamarack-Black-Wilkinson-Amelia, Birch Lake, or Goose Lake subwatershed. This project will be chosen using completed or future feasibility studies, resulting in a reduction of at least 0.3 lbs/TP per year.
Annie Felix-Gerth
(Watershed Based Implementation Funding)(a) $13,591,000 the first year and $13,375,000 the second year are for performance-based grants with multiyear implementation plans 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.
Partition 1 (Cost Share): 0.3 lbs of TP reduction annually; construction on average of at least 1 BMP annually. Partition 2 (subwatershed BMP): 0.3 lbs/TP annual loading reduction upon implementation of project.
LOCAL LEVERAGED FUNDS