2024 Wright County Ditch 19 Grade Stabilization Structures
The Wright Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD), in partnership with the Wright County Drainage Authority, is proposing to prevent significant sediment erosion and provide peak flow reductions in the upland watershed and adjacent to County Ditch 19. County Ditch 19 begins as the outlet of French Lake and terminates at Peloquin Ave NW, then flows .6 miles via a DNR public watercourse, French Creek, to the North Fork Crow River, which is impaired for aquatic macroinvertebrate bioassessments, fishes bioassessments, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, and Escherichia coli. This project would include the installation of nine grade stabilization structures (NRCS code 410) and two water and sediment control basins (NRCS code 638).
Annie Felix-Gerth
$1,000,000 the second year are for technical assistance and grants for the conservation drainage program, in consultation with the Drainage Work Group, coordinated under Minnesota Statutes, section 103B.101, subdivision 13, and including projects to improve multipurpose water management under Minnesota Statutes, section 103E.015.
Preliminary PTMApp catchment reductions for the proposed projects come to 25.3 pounds of phosphorus, 203.5 tons of sediment and 346.5 pounds of nitrogen per year.
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