Plum Creek Subwatershed Turbidity Reduction
Plum Creek watershed is a highly productive agricultural area in Murray and Redwood Counties in southwest Minnesota. Extensive subsurface drainage and open ditches are required to improve crop productivity. This project will install five grade stabilization structures, three grass waterways, two water and sediment control basins, and one streambank restoration. These practices will be used to capture sediment from excessive overland flows and provide up to 75% cost-share for landowners. Anticipated goals will annually reduce 1,470 tons of sediment through implementation of these shovel-ready projects.
Annie Felix-Gerth
(Projects and Practices)(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.
Anticipated goals will annually reduce 1470 tons of sediment with these BMPs. This reduction goal would constitute 41% toward the Plum Creek TSS reduction goal and 2.1% toward the 25% reduction goal of MN River Basin Sediment Reduction Strategy.
This project has resulted in an estimated annual reduction of 928.15 tons of Sediment, 71.928 acre-feet of Volume Reduced
LOCAL LEVERAGED FUNDS