Bass Creek Restoration
The purpose of the Bass Creek Restoration Project is to improve water quality and biotic integrity in Bass Creek in the City of Brooklyn Park. Bass Creek is an Impaired Water for excess chloride and an impaired fish community. Approximately 1,400 linear feet between Cherokee Drive N and I-94/694 will be improved by thinning trees, establishing native vegetation in the buffer and on the banks, enhancing habitat, and introducing low-flow sinuosity and reaeration opportunities with rock vanes and root wads. The stream flows through Bass Creek Park with an adjacent bicycle/pedestrian trail. The project will improve aesthetics and provide an opportunity for park user education about native habitat and stream ecology. The outcome will be enhanced habitat for aquatic and upland wildlife, improved water quality, and improved stream aeration.
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.
-Reduce annual streambank soil loss from 39.3 to 10.2 tons/year and TP load from 7.9 to 2.0 lbs/year
-Increase reaeration to minimize time that DO falls below 5 mg/L.
-Improve MSHA score from 42.4 (Poor) to at least 60 points (Fair to Good)
LOCAL LEVERAGED FUNDS