Cedar River/Wapsipinicon Implementation 2022 Request
The entities of the Cedar - Wapsipinicon watershed planning area hope to achieve the Cedar - Wapsipinicon Comprehensive Watershed Management Plan goals, including surface water quality, groundwater quality, excessive sedimentation and erosion, and flooding goals. Work includes cost-share incentives, project development, technical/engineering assistance, education/outreach, and administration/grant reporting. Cost-share incentives consists of expanding and accelerating septic assessments, with cost-sharing of inspections, and grants to low-income landowners requiring septic system upgrades for failing systems. Cost-share incentives will fund traditional and innovative conservation practices including but not limited to grassed waterways, water and sediment control basins, saturated buffers, denitrifying bioreactors, multi-purpose drainage management, well decommissioning, soil health practices, and capital improvement projects. It's anticipated that approximately 40 structural/non-structural practices will be installed, working to reduce E. coli loading to surface and groundwater, reducing P loading by an estimated 273.11 lbs/year, N loading by an estimated 46,600 lbs/year, TSS loading by an estimated 1,325.3 T/year, and increasing runoff storage by an estimated 1,918 ac. ft., focused in targeted areas of the Cedar - Wapsipinicon watershed. Staff time to plan and develop, then survey and design structural/non-structural conservation projects focused in targeted areas will be funded, along with education/outreach activities, including contacting landowners for the septic program, and contacting private well owners for well decommissioning. Additional education/outreach activities will consist of planning and holding soil health and nutrient management field days/workshops, and developing an educational resource access site. It's estimated that about 10% will be used for administration of the plan/grant reporting, and approximately 5% on fiscal tracking of the grant.
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Annie Felix-Gerth
2019: (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. 2021: (a) $21,197,000 the first year and $22,367,000 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 and seven-county metropolitan groundwater or surface water 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) implementation grants to watershed planning areas with approved plans, including but not limited to Buffalo-Red River, Cannon River, Cedar River, Clearwater River, Des Moines River, Hawk Creek, Lac qui Parle Yellow Bank, Lake of the Woods, Lake Superior North, Le Seuer River, Leech Lake River, Long Prairie River, Lower Minnesota River North, Lower Minnesota River West, Lower Minnesota River South, Lower St. Croix River, Marsh and Wild Rice, Middle Snake Tamarack Rivers, Mississippi East, Mississippi River Headwaters, Mississippi West, Missouri River Basin, Mustinka/Bois de Sioux, Nemadji River, North Fork Crow River, Otter Tail, Pine River, Pomme de Terre River, Red Lake River, Redeye River, Root River, Rum River, Sauk River, Shell Rock River/Winnebago Watershed, Snake River, South Fork Crow River, St. Louis River, Thief River, Two Rivers Plus, Vermillion, Watonwan River, Winona La Crescent, Yellow Medicine River, and Zumbro River; (2) seven-county metropolitan groundwater or surface water 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 may determine whether a planning area is not ready to proceed, does not have the nonstate match committed, or has not expended all money granted to it. Upon making the determination, the board may allocate a grant's proposed or unexpended allocation to another planning area to implement priority projects, programs, or practices.
Proposed measurable outcomes include reducing P loading by an est. 273.11 lbs/year, N loading by an est. 46,600 lbs/year, TSS loading by an est. 1,325.3 T/year, and increasing runoff storage by an estimated 1,918 ac. ft. throughout the watershed.
LOCAL LEVERAGED FUNDS