2024 Red Lake River Watershed Based Funding
The Red Lake River Partnership has approved an annual plan and budget to implement priority agricultural practices, streambank and shoreline protection projects, a Continuous Conservation Reserve Program Incentive program, and septic system upgrades to restore and protect water quality in priority areas. Priority management areas are the Little Black River, Black River, County Ditch 96, the Red Lake River between Thief River and Crookston, the riparian corridor of the Red Lake River, and Burnham Creek. The riparian corridor of the Red Lake River is a priority location for CRP and the incentive program. Tier 2 and Tier 3 priority areas are also identified in the 2023 Annual Plan. Total Suspended Solid impairments are a priority to restore with the focus of implementation near reaches that are closest to meeting water quality standards and protecting high-quality unimpaired waters.
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 by an estimate of 689.5 tons/year by implementing streambank stabilization projects and agricultural practices. Five septic system upgrades are estimated and 400 acres of CCRP is estimated through the incentive program.
LOCAL LEVERAGED FUNDS