Chief's Coulee Stormwater Project
The Chief's Coulee drainage area, in northern Thief River Falls, has been identified as a source of flooding and water quality concerns through inspection and water quality sampling. Once a natural drainage course, many diverse land uses now surround the Coulee which include agriculture, industrial railroad yards, grain elevators, recycling operators, residential development, and municipal street department facilities. Extremely high concentrations of pollutants and water quality indicators, such as E. coli, phosphorus, nitrogen, biochemical oxygen demand, and total suspended solids discharge into the Red Lake River near Red Robe Park, less than 3/4 mile upstream of the City of Thief River Falls drinking water intake. A preliminary investigation of the drainage area has been completed. HDR Engineering provided several options to pursue and recommends a combination of agricultural BMPs, three hydrodynamic separators, bioretention practices, ten buffered surface inlets, and 135 curb decals as a comprehensive approach to reduce sediment and phosphorus loading in Chief's Coulee. This proposal for the Chief's Coulee project aims to achieve improved water quality for waters entering the source area of the city's drinking water intake.
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Annie Felix-Gerth
(b) $10,762,000 the first year and $11,504,000 the second year are for grants to local government units to protect and restore surface water and drinking water; to keep water on the land; to protect, enhance, and restore water quality in lakes, rivers, and streams; and to protect groundwater and drinking water, including feedlot water quality and subsurface sewage treatment system projects and stream bank, stream channel, shoreline restoration, and ravine stabilization projects. The projects must use practices demonstrated to be effective, be of long-lasting public benefit, include a match, and be consistent with total maximum daily load (TMDL) implementation plans, watershed restoration and protection strategies (WRAPS), or local water management plans or their equivalents. Up to 20 percent of this appropriation is available for land-treatment projects and practices that benefit drinking water.
The proposed project will reduce 16.5 tons of sediment/year and 126.08 pounds of phosphorus/year.
LOCAL LEVERAGED FUNDS