Perro Creek Urban Stormwater Quality Improvements
Perro Creek drains directly into the nutrient impaired St. Croix River. This project focuses on landowner outreach, design and installation of up to 10 bioinfiltration best management practices to reduce pollution from 85 acres of urban land draining directly into Perro Creek, then into Lake St. Croix with no water quality treatment. The installation of these practices will not only reduce stormwater volumes, but also the nutrients that are the root cause of the nutrient impairment in Lake St. Croix as well as the stormwater bacteria contributions to Perro Creek.
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Marcey Westrick
1 ton of sediment/year, 6 lbs of phosphorus/year, and 2 acre-feet of stormwater/year
This project resulted in an estimated annual reduction of 7.2 lbs of phosphorus and 0.045 acre-feet per year of water volume.
LOCAL LEVERAGED FUNDS