The Hubbard County Community Partners Conservation Program will give community groups the resources necessary to build interest in, and awareness of, the water quality challenges facing their lakes and empower them to make positive improvements in the form of reduced stormwater runoff. Through the design of a collaborative effort, the Hubbard Soil and Water Conservation District and Local Water Plan Task Force will enable Hubbard County residents and lake home owners to work together to address the effects of development with stormwater runoff solutions.
To engage the residents of Hubbard County in the arts and encourage them to exhibit their work in the Open Class Building. Funds will additionally be used to restore the one room school house.
The Hubbard County Surface Water Monitoring Leech Lake River Watershed 2023-2024 Project will include water quality and temperature profile monitoring of 12 lakes and 8 stream sampling sites in the Leech Lake River watershed area of Hubbard and Cass counties.The lakes include Garfield, Hart, Gillet, Twenty-One, Nelson, Halverson and McCarty in Hubbard County and Little Sand, Upper Trelipe, Lower Trelipe, Crystal and Howard in Cass County. In Hubbard County, the stream sites include 2 sites on the Necktie River and 2 sites on the Kabekona River.
This project will include water quality monitoring on two rivers and twenty lakes found within the Crow Wing River Watershed. Rivers included are Fishhook and Straight River; lakes included are Mow, Big Bass, 11 CROW WING (MAIN), 11 CROWWING (EAST), Tenth Crow Wing, Third Crow Wing, Fourth Crow Wing, First Crow Wing, Shallow, Deer, Waboose, East Crooked, Middle Crooked, West Crooked, Dead, Ojibway, Upper Twin, Pickerel, Moran, Little Mantrap, Portage. Water quality sampling will be conducted according to Minnesota Pollution Control Agency work plan parameters.
This project will support new, community-focused programming that expands our current work, and explores community desire for a future gathering space magnetized around the humanities. We're calling our project The Park-Lynn Community Archive and Reading Room,Parks-Lynn for short.
To hire a professional historian to complete research and documentation of the Hamline United Methodist Church building, in preparation for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places.
A reuse study on the Hurd House/Anderson Hotel, which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places, was completed by John Lauber and Associates with a final draft sent to the City of Wabasha on 1/24/2011. The City of Wabasha Historic Preservation Commission and Port Authority along with City Administrator and Planner were directly involved with the development of the project.
To hire qualified technicians to provide designs for Lac qui Parle County Historical Society's heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) system.
To hire a professional heating, ventilation and air conditioning engineer to evaluate the Ames-Florida House, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, and make recommendations for meeting climate standards.
To implement recommendations from an HVAC evaluation that will ensure better climate control for the preservation of historic resources in a 1,300 square foot archival storage vault
To hire a qualified and experienced HVAC engineer to evaluate current system preparatory to better control of the North Superior Lifeboat Station Lightkeeper's House, listed in the National Register of Historic Places and current home of the Cook County Historical Society.
A professional heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) engineer was hired to conduct an HVAC evaluation comparing the relative merits and costs of a conventional HVAC system with a geothermal system. The result was the geothermal system was more expensive with a fifty-year payback term. Purchasing a conventional system was recommended as the upgrade for meeting climate standards.
To hire a qualified HVAC engineer to prepare planning documents for a future project to improve environmental conditions for the Elysian School, listed in the National Register of Historic Places
To hire a qualified and experienced HVAC engineer to evaluate the current system preparatory to better control of the McLeod County Historical Society museum environment.
