FY24/25 Lower MN River - West
The Lower Minnesota River West Partnership (Partnership) is a group of the Counties and Soil and Water Conservation Districts (SWCDs) of McLeod, Nicollet, and Sibley, and High Island Creek Watershed District. The Partnership covers an area north and west of the Minnesota River (498,000 acres), including four major tributaries (High Island Creek, Rush River, Silver Creek and Bevens Creek) . The Partnership was formed to develop a Comprehensive Watershed Management Plan (Plan) through the One Watershed, One Plan (1W1P) program detailed in Minnesota Statutes 103B.801. Through the 1W1P program, the Partners have and will work cooperatively towards water and natural resource management actions over the next 10 years. Since the plan approval (March 2023), the Partnership passed resolutions to adopt and implement the plan, formed a JPCA, and approved a WBIF implementation guidance document. This grant will work towards ensuring that the partnership achieves the goals of the plan and provide measurable results. BMPs include; 48 structural practices, 800 acres of soil health practices, 2 MDM projects, 20 tile system. Outreach events include 2 soil health, 2 MDM, 2 regarding natural resource protection. Host 4 field days demonstrating soil health practices.
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.
BMPs include; 20 structural practices, 1,000 acres of soil health practices, 2 MDM projects, 20 tile system bmps. Outreach events include 2 soil health, 2 MDM, and 2 regarding natural resource protection. Host 4 field days demonstrating soil health practices.
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