Red Lake Watershed District Ditch 3 & Ditch 7
The Clean Water Fund Project's primary purpose is to reduce soil loss, eliminate sediment deposition in the two Red Lake Watershed District(RLWD) ditch systems, improve water quality, and reduce maintenance costs along these ditch systems. The project will be a team effort between the Red Lake County SWCD, the Red Lake Watershed District, and the landowners located along the ditch systems.
The project will provide adequate drainage to landowners who own cropland along RLWD Ditch # 3 and RLWD Ditch # 7 and reduce soil loss from their cropland. Measured outcomes will be the amount of soil loss that will be saved, the amount of sedimentation reduced, along with the improvement to the ditch system which in turn reduces maintenance costs. The estimated amount of sedimentation that will be reduced along RLWD Ditch # 3 is 800 tons per year. The estimated amount of sedimentation that will be reduced along RLWD Ditch # 7 is 900 tons per year.
The secondary purpose of this project will be the educational component to this project by educating the landowners on the value of their cropland soil and the improvement to water quality by installing these Best Management Practices.
Nicole Clapp
The estimated amount of sedimentation that will be reduced along RLWD Ditch # 3 is 800 tons per year. The estimated amount of sedimentation that will be reduced along RLWD Ditch # 7 is 900 tons per year.
This project resulted in meeting the sediment reduction goals for RLWD Ditch #3 and Ditch #7, 800 tons per year and 900 tons per year respectively. This was accomplished with the installation of 9 side water inlet structures on the Ditch #3 system and 25 side water inlet structures on the Ditch #7 system.