FY24 Rainy-Rapid WBIF
The Rainy-Rapid Comprehensive Watershed Management Plan area is located in north-central Minnesota. It encompasses the eastern half of Lake of the Woods county with a small portion extending into Koochiching and Beltrami counties. The watershed is unique in that a large portion of the watershed (approximately 81%) is in public ownership. The plan reflects the resource diversity of the watershed itself, and includes restoration and protection of water quality, environmental degradation, water-related infrastructure and education. Actions proposed in the work plan will address the diversity of resources, high level of non-private lands, and a dual approach of restoration and protection measures.
Annie Felix-Gerth
(a) $39,500,000 the first year and $39,500,000 the second year are for grants to implement state-approved watershed-based plans. The grants may be used to implement projects or programs that protect, enhance, and restore surface PreviouswaterNext quality in lakes, rivers, and streams; protect groundwater from degradation; and protect drinking PreviouswaterNext sources. Projects must be identified in a comprehensive watershed plan developed under the One Watershed, One Plan program and seven-county metropolitan groundwater or surface PreviouswaterNext 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) implementing state-approved plans, including within the following watershed planning areas (see Chapter 40 Article 2 Section 6(a) (2) for the list of watershed planning areas: seven-county metropolitan groundwater or surface PreviouswaterNext 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 must establish eligibility criteria and determine whether a planning area is ready to proceed and has the nonstate match committed.
Complete streambank, ditch and riparian measures to reduce sediment by 26 tons/yr and 30 lbs phosphous/yr, complete 5 new private forest management plans, inventory and develop city stormwater runoff plan, address 1.5 miles of unstable drainages.
LOCAL LEVERAGED FUNDS