Greater Blue Earth Nonpoint Reduction Initiative

Provide education, outreach and civic engagement necessary for the development of structural and non-structural best management practices needed to improve water quality within the Greater Blue Earth River Basin. General Education will have a regional focus to landowners. Outreach effort will be focused on regional officials, staff and landowners. Civic engagement efforts will have a smaller watershed scale focus with efforts resulting in structural BMPs being placed on the land and non-structural BMPs being adopted. Implementation of structural best management practices on the land. Approximately 10 stormwater projects, 5 general nonpoint projects, 10 drainage projects and 2 demonstration projects will be implemented on the lands to address nonpoint pollution.