WinLaC 1W1P 2023
This grant will fund about 25 projects in High Groundwater Priority areas, High Surface Water Priority areas, and/or in sub-watersheds with stressed/impaired streams for the four WinLaC planning regions. These practices will reduce overland total nitrogen loading and loading to groundwater; reduce overland total phosphorus and sediment; and increase headwater storage and/or reduce peak flow rates and sediment loading.
Projects include grassed waterways, WASCOBs, grade stabilization structures, soil health assistance such as cover crops and conservation tillage, along with project development and technical assistance.
Project development will include three specific tasks: identification of potential flood control projects; engineering design work at a project site along the North Fork Whitewater; development of a program to permanently protect bluffland areas. All three completed project development projects will foster additional projects for future WBIF grants.
Funding will also support staff time for cost-share projects, as well as leveraging the local Area 7 TSA for engineering assistance to landowners, when needed. Additionally, the Area Soil Health (Grazing) Technician and the Nutrient Management Specialist will be supported with funding to provide technical assistance to landowners.
The partnership will complete 1 digital communication and 1 outreach event each year for groundwater issues, land protection and soil health.
Ten-year goals include reducing nitrogen loading by 4% (390,300 lbs/yr); reducing total phosphorus by 5% (17,300 lbs/yr); reducing sediment loading by 9% (37,200 tons/yr); and increasing watershed storage by 10,000 acre-feet. Plan goals also include resource protection practices such as managed grazing, bacteria management plans, soil health improvements.
Annie Felix-Gerth
$21,197,000 the first year and $22,367,000 the second year are for performance-based grants with multiyear implementation plans to local government units. The grants may be used to implement projects that protect, enhance, and restore surface water quality in lakes, rivers, and streams; protect groundwater from degradation; and protect drinking water sources. Projects must be identified in a comprehensive watershed plan developed under the One Watershed, One Plan and seven-county metropolitan groundwater or surface water management frameworks as provided for in Minnesota Statutes, chapters 103B, 103C, 103D, and 114D. Grant recipients must identify a nonstate match and may use other legacy funds to supplement projects funded under this paragraph.
Outcomes include reducing sediment by 315 tons/yr; reducing TP by 223 lbs/yr; reducing TN loss by 5,880 lbs/yr. Additional outcomes include 100 acres in native vegetation; 220 acres in soil health practices and 50 in managed grazing.
LOCAL LEVERAGED FUNDS