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4090 Results for
Recipient
East Otter Tail Soil and Water
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
Fund Source

The Otter Tail County Community Conservation Sub-grant Program enables community groups to go beyond planning and take action to protect their water resources. This grant program provides community groups with the means to make positive improvements now, and a venue to grow community and identify further water quality opportunities. Engaging community members in the identification of water protection opportunities helps build connections and foster a stewardship ethic.

Otter Tail
Recipient
East Otter Tail Soil and Water Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
Fund Source

This grant program provides community groups with the ability to make positive improvements, a venue to grow community and identify water quality opportunities. Engaging community members in the identification of water protection opportunities helps build connections and foster a stewardship ethic. Selecting projects requires community groups to collaboratively develop priorities among the range of water quality impacts. Implementing projects provides a unique active social enviroment that helps build connections and energy to motivate and grow the community into the next project.

Otter Tail
Recipient
Otter Tail, East SWCD
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
Fund Source

The Otter Tail County Community Partners Grant Project will enable community groups to go beyond planning and take action to protect their water resources. This grant program will provide targeted community groups with the means to make positive improvements now and identify high priority projects for future opportunities. Engaging community members in the identification of water protection opportunities with the data in recently completed lake assessment reports will help build connections and foster a stewardship ethic.

Otter Tail
Recipient
Otter Tail, West SWCD
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$290,616
Fund Source

This Initiative is a nine-year plan to take a systematic approach to inventory and analyze all Public Waters within the County. Phase 1 includes identifying areas of concern through GIS analysis of current landuse along Public Waters, and the development of a database of non-compliant landowners which will be updated and maintained. Once landowners have been identified they will receive a joint letter and map stating that they may not be in compliance.

Otter Tail
Recipient
Otter Tail, East SWCD
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$16,225
Fund Source

The Otter Tail Water Management District (OTWMD) manages the wastewater for nearly 1,750 private residences near Otter Tail Lake, Deer Lake, and Lake Blanche. There OTWMD is responsible for 101 monitoring wells that were installed in 1984 and 1985 that are no longer being used and need to be properly sealed. The goal of this project is for the East Otter Tail Soil and Water Conservation District (EOTSWCD) to assist the OTWMD in properly sealing 100% of the monitoring wells that are located within the Otter Tail Surficial Aquifer.

Otter Tail
Recipient
Otter Tail, East SWCD
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$471,000
Fund Source

The purpose of this project is to develop a detailed tool that can be used in all watersheds within the Otter Tail and Becker counties to prioritize, target, and measure implementation practices at the field scale. The PTM App will significantly increase the targeting capabilities in Otter Tail and Becker Counties. The Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy has not been completed for Otter Tail County, yet, and the PTM App will be able to assist targeting and prioritizing when those documents are created.

Becker
Otter Tail
Recipient
Wilkin SWCD
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$203,000
Fund Source

The Otter Tail River is located in west-central Minnesota. Its Lower Otter Tail River (LOTR) reach is impaired for sediment. The LOTR begins at the dam of Orwell Reservoir near Fergus Falls and ends 48 river miles downstream at the confluence with the Bois de Sioux River at Breckenridge. No point sources contribute directly to the LOTR. Consequently, the turbidity impairment must be addressed through non-point measures. Current stream instability and bank erosion is largely a result of an 18-mile channel straightening completed by the Army Corps of Engineers in the 1950s.

Wilkin
Recipient
Wilkin SWCD
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
Fund Source

This restoration and protection project will reduce the loading of sediment to the Otter Tail River by 440 tons/year. This is about 6.5% of the total reduction needed to meet the goals of the Lower Otter Tail TMDL Implementation Plan. The Otter Tail River downstream of Orwell Dam is impaired due to sediment, with stream bank erosion being the primary contributor. This stream bank restoration will include the installation of woody toe debris benches and the installation of a vegetated slope along a 1,400 foot reach of the river.

Wilkin
Recipient
Otter Tail, East SWCD
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,507,070
Fund Source

Watershed based implementation funds will be used to target conservation practices utilizing the principles associated with Prioritize, Target and Measure as referenced in our Local Comprehensive Watershed Management Plan. Implementation Funds are budgeted for the installation of best management practices and to support staff capacity necessary to implement the plan.

Becker
Otter Tail
Recipient
Wilkin SWCD
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$201,000
Fund Source

The Otter Tail River is impaired for turbidity. This project involves the installation of 45 side-inlet structures into Wilkin County Ditch 3-2 and 7-1 and 22 acres of buffer strips along the entire systems. Eleven miles of continuous berm will also be constructed along the ditch. When installed these water quality practices will become a permanent part of the ditch system and will be maintained by the ditch authority. These ditches outlet to the Otter Tail River just upstream from Breckenridge, MN. Together these water quality BMPs will reduce sediment loading by 1,375 tons/year.

Wilkin
Recipient
Steele County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$36,650
Fund Source

The Straight River runs through Owatonna and is considered a priority water resource for the city. Untreated stormwater from city roofs, streets and parking lots are jeopardizing the water quality of river. Through this project, the city will install four rain gardens in city parks that will capture and rapidly absorb stormwater runoff from streets and driveways. The implentation of these rain gardens throughout the city will reduce the volume of stormwater entering the Straight River.

Steele
Recipient
Shingle Creek WMC
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$384,000
Fund Source
Hennepin
Recipient
Douglas Soil and Water
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$54,735
Fund Source

The Partners for Clean Water program will enable community groups to take action to improve their water resources. Engaging citizens directly in project development and installation efforts provides immediate water quality benefits and develops a community of active stewardship. Installation of projects previously developed by Douglas County community groups will shift the currently dormant water quality protection efforts.

Douglas
Recipient
Douglas SWCD
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$74,440
Fund Source

The Douglas County Partners for Clean Water program enables community groups to take action and improve their water resources. Engaging citizens directly in project development and installation efforts provides immediate water quality benefits and cultivates a community of active stewardship.

Douglas
Recipient
Cass County Environmental Services Department
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$50,900
Fund Source

This project is a cooperative effort including Cass Soil and Water Conservation District, the Association of Cass County Lakes (ACCL), and registered Homeowner Associations throughout Cass County. All of Cass Counties 514 lakes and streams eventually drain into the Upper Mississippi Watershed. Sediment and nutrient pollution continue to be a primary concern when addressing water quality protection issues.

Cass
Recipient
Todd SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$81,909
Fund Source
Todd
Recipient
South Washington WD
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$228,539
Fund Source

The South Washington Watershed District has identified a series of priority sites to install filtration systems on aging storm sewer networks in the cities of Newport and St. Paul Park aimed at reducing sediment loads to the Mississippi River. SWWD is working with the cities to add stormwater treatment where there has historically been none. Prioritization has come from two recently completed subwatershed retrofit assessments, targeting specific storm sewer networks in the cities.

Washington
Recipient
Redwood-Cottonwood Rivers Control Area
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$648,075
Fund Source
Cottonwood
Murray
Redwood
Recipient
Washington Conservation District
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$80,000
Fund Source
Washington
Recipient
Middle St. Croix River WMO
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$63,000
Fund Source

Perro Creek drains directly into the nutrient impaired St. Croix River. This project focuses on landowner outreach, design and installation of up to 10 bioinfiltration best management practices to reduce pollution from 85 acres of urban land draining directly into Perro Creek, then into Lake St. Croix with no water quality treatment. The installation of these practices will not only reduce stormwater volumes, but also the nutrients that are the root cause of the nutrient impairment in Lake St. Croix as well as the stormwater bacteria contributions to Perro Creek.

Washington
Recipient
Nicollet SWCD
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$374,625
Fund Source
Nicollet
Recipient
Anoka CD
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$440,000
Fund Source
Anoka
Recipient
Big Stone SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$274,000
Fund Source
Big Stone
Recipient
Carlton SWCD
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$81,791
Fund Source

This project will fund the stream restoration of a failed, 30-year old sediment control structure in the Deer Creek subwatershed using natural channel design methods to restore the stream to a stable state. Since the dam breached an estimated 78 tons of sediment is transported annually to the turbidity-impaired Deer Creek.

Carlton
Recipient
Polk , East SWCD
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$364,880
Fund Source

Increases in crop prices have reduced the acreage of land in conservation set-aside programs such as the Conservation Reserve Program and other marginal land use. Significant conversion of grasslands to cultivated agricultural crops has increased the levels of runoff and sedimentation. Phase III of this project addresses the need to protect vulnerable sites by installing water and sediment basins. These basins are earthen embankments built to temporarily detain sediment-laden runoff, allowing sediment to settle out before runoff is discharged.

Polk
Recipient
Polk , East SWCD
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$253,800
Fund Source

This project is Phase IV of work to install water and sediment basins located within Sand Hill Watershed. A water and sediment basin is an earthen embankment built so that sediment-laden runoff is temporarily detained, allowing sediment to settle out before runoff is discharge. These are installed on agricultural cropland where erosion exceeds the allowable soil rate. Minimum detention time to store water is 36 hours for a 10 year, 24 hour runoff event. Starting in 2010, the District received dollars to assist landowners with flood-related projects.

Polk
Recipient
City of Apple Valley
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$158,214
Fund Source

In 2002, Farquar and Long Lakes were placed on the impaired waters list due to high phosphorus levels that caused algal blooms and reduced water clarity. The City of Apple Valley is proposing a combination of two enhancements to achieve a 61 pound reduction in phosphorus.

Dakota
Recipient
Plymouth, City of
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
Fund Source
Hennepin
Recipient
Crow Wing SWCD
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$634,381
Fund Source
Cass
Crow Wing
Recipient
Crow Wing SWCD
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$482,142
Fund Source
Cass
Crow Wing
Recipient
Crow Wing SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$482,000
Fund Source
Cass
Crow Wing
Recipient
Crow Wing SWCD, BWSR
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,242,000
Fund Source

We will partner with the BWSR RIM Easement Program, Hubbard, Crow Wing, and Cass Counties and Soil and Water Conservation Districts (SWCD) to protect 610 acres of high-quality private forest, wetlands, and shoreline in the Northern Forest Ecological Section. This project will be successful because of the sophisticated RAQ scoring, integrative parcel selection, proven outreach tactics, SWCD landowner relationships, and BWSR and SWCD RIM partnership.

Cass
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Recipient
City of Elko New Market
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Fund Source

Support aquifer test

Scott
Recipient
City of Brooklyn Park
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source

Collect WLs from 44 wells and public ed

Hennepin
Recipient
City of LeRoy
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Fund Source

Well owner ed. and well sealing cost share

Mower
Recipient
City of Mazeppa
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,400
Fund Source

Seal wells 1(226951) and 2 (218862)

Wabasha
Recipient
City of Apple Valley
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source

PCSI wells, tanks, SSTS

Dakota
Recipient
City of Farmington
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source

PCSI wells, SSTS and public ed.

Dakota
Recipient
City of Pelican Rapids
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,940
Fund Source

Seal wells 2(228923) and 12 (144068)

Otter Tail
Recipient
City of Hastings
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,500
Fund Source

Support finding and sealing well 1

Dakota