Pleasure Creek South BIESF
In partnership with the City of Coon Rapids, we will address Pleasure Creek's aquatic life and recreation impairments by reducing nutrient and bacteria loading attributable to urban stormwater runoff. We will retrofit an existing in-line rate control pond with a 7000 sq ft biochar- and iron-enhanced sand filter to reduce total phosphorus and E. coli loading to Pleasure Creek by 19.2 lbs and 270 billion organisms per year, respectively. Paired with a similar filtration BMP constructed 2 miles upstream in 2020, this project will achieve the TP reduction goals established for Pleasure Creek as part of the Total Maximum Daily Load study approved in 2016.
Annie Felix-Gerth
(b) $16,000,000 the first year and $16,000,000 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. A portion of this money may be used to seek administrative efficiencies through shared resources by multiple local governmental units. Up to 20 percent of this appropriation is available for land-treatment projects and practices that benefit drinking water.
To make progress towards meeting Pleasure Creek's TMDL wasteload allocations, this project will reduce total phosphorus loading by 19.2 pounds per year and will reduce E. coli loading by an estimated 270 billion organisms per year.
Grant funds funded this project that reduced total phosphorus loading by 19.2 pounds per year and will reduce E. coli loading by an estimated 270 billion organisms per year to Pleasure Creek.
LOCAL LEVERAGED FUNDS