BCWMC Harrison Neighborhood Project
This project engages private property owners including non-profits, businesses, and institutions, in the Harrison Neighborhood of Near North Minneapolis to install storm water best management practices. The BMPs will reduce pollution in Bassett Creek including chlorides and bacteria, for which the creek is impaired. The primary focus is on Glenwood Avenue, a focal point in the community and a highly impervious area. We plan to engage a minimum of six property owners to install practices that filter/infiltrate storm water runoff, diminish localized flooding, create native habitat, and beautify the neighborhood.
Community Partners pass through, recipient Board unknown at this time
See http://www.bwsr.state.mn.us/aboutbwsr/index.html
Annie Felix-Gerth
$750,000 the first year and $750,000 the second year are for community partner grants to local units of government for: (1) structural or vegetative management practices that reduce storm water runoff from developed or disturbed lands to reduce the movement of sediment, nutrients, and pollutants for restoration, protection, or enhancement of water quality in lakes, rivers, and streams and to protect groundwater and drinking water; and (2) installation of proven and effective water retention practices including, but not limited to, rain gardens and other vegetated infiltration basins and sediment control basins in order to keep water on the land. The projects must be of long-lasting public benefit, include a local match, and be consistent with TMDL implementation plans, watershed restoration and protection strategies (WRAPS), or local water management plans or their equivalents. Local government unit costs may be used as a match.
1 ton of sediment/year, 2 lbs of phosphorus/year, and 1 acre-feet of runoff/year
This project has resulted in an estimated annual reduction of 3.874 pounds of Phosphorus, .6855 tons of Sediment, 3.371 acre-feet of Volume Reduced.
LOCAL LEVERAGED FUNDS