July Avenue Feedlot
This project will implement cover crops and livestock waste management practices on a farm/feedlot in southern Chisago County. Proposed practices include: cover crops, roof runoff management, clean water diversion, waste management system, and vegetated treatment area. The proposed project is estimated to reduce approximately 61 lb/yr of watershed phosphorus loading to School Lake, which discharges through a stream to Little Comfort Lake. The Comfort Lake-Forest Lake Watershed District (CLFLWD) performed diagnostic monitoring to target this phosphorus loading hotspot which includes a cattle feedlot at the headwaters of this tributary. The CLFLWD 2022-2031 Watershed Management Plan indicates a phosphorus reduction goal of 477 lb/yr to achieve the District's water quality goal of 40 ?g/L mean summer phosphorus concentration in School Lake. Of the total 477 lb/yr reduction goal, 211 lb/yr is from the direct drainage area and the remainder is from upstream lakes (Moody/Bone/Birch Lakes). This project is estimated to achieve 29% of the 211 lb/yr watershed phosphorus load reduction goal for School Lake. The CLFLWD received a letter of support from the landowner for this project.
Annie Felix-Gerth
(b) $8,500,000 the first year and $8,500,000 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.
For School Lake: phosphorus load reduction of 61 lb/yr (29% of the goal for this drainage). Cover crops on 60 acres of cropland, saving 88.8 tons of soil per year at edge-of-field and achieving 184 lbs/yr of nitrogen removal.
LOCAL LEVERAGED FUNDS