Street Sweeping St. Cloud for Clean Drinking Water
The City of St. Cloud draws water out of the Mississippi River for its sole drinking water supply. The quality of raw water fluctuates seasonally. Spring runoff and large rainfall events are the biggest contributors to poor raw water quality. Sediments, organics, and other contaminants get washed off the landscape and into the drainage systems, especially in urban areas. The City is looking to minimize these fluctuations by purchasing a new street sweeper to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the City's street sweeping program within Priority Area A of the City's Drinking Water Supply Management Area.
The proposed new street sweeper will be effective at removing sediments, organic matter produced by trees, and other attached pollutants such as phosphorus. Properly timed and efficient street sweeping is the most cost-effective stormwater pollution prevention best management practice to protect the Mississippi River, St. Cloud's drinking water source.
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.
200 total street miles to be swept in the project area; approximately 100 street miles that drain directly to waterways without stormwater treatment. Annually remove an estimated additional 170 lbs. of TP and 330 tons of TSS from the project area.
LOCAL LEVERAGED FUNDS