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36546 Results for
Recipient
Jackson County
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$390,000
Fund Source

Loon Lake, the receiving waterbody for Jackson Judicial Ditch 8 (JD8), is impaired for nutrients - with phosphorus being a primary concern, along with a delta of sediment forming where JD8 flows into Loon Lake. JD8 is impaired for benthic macroinvertebrates and fish bioassessments, which indicates that the long-term health of the system is poor. The project proposed in this application will construct a 4.6-acre constructed wetland along the JD8 open ditch, providing water storage and allowing sediment and nutrients to settle out before entering the lake.

Jackson
Recipient
Jackson County
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$320,175
Fund Source

Develop 19 site campground including 4 camper cabins, restroom and trail connection.

Jackson
Recipient
City of Medina
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$334,450
Fund Source

Lake Sarah is a regionally significant lake and currently suffers from excess phosphprus levels. Loretto Creek, located partially within the Cities of Medina and Loretto, is Lake Sarah's east tributary carrying approximately 269 pounds of phosphorus to the lake each year. This is a joint project between the Cities of Loretto and Medina developed for the Loretto ballfields to address this problem.

Hennepin
Recipient
Loretto, City of
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$299,502
Fund Source

Construct connection to Met Council regional system

Hennepin
Recipient
Clearwater Soil and Water Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$32,260
Fund Source

The Lost River requires ongoing protection efforts to reduce harmful runoff entering the watershed. A primary element of this project involves providing project development and technical assistance to a producer who owns approximately 1/3 mile of Lost River frontage. Severe erosion and feedlot conditions compromise water quality in this area. The restoration of this jeopardized area will be accomplished through buffers, streambank restoration and livestock exclusion.

Clearwater
Recipient
DNR
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,013,000
Fund Source

MNDNR’s St. Louis River Restoration Initiative (SLRRI) applies a collaborative approach to restore sites impacted by legacy habitat alterations of wood waste, wetland loss and sedimentation to establish ecologically resilient aquatic and riparian fish and wildlife habitat that will establish the St. Louis River Estuary as a premier fishing and outdoor recreation destination. MNDNR will restore 181 acres of priority aquatic and riparian habitat at multiple sites in the lower St. Louis River in partnership with the Minnesota Land Trust.

St. Louis
Recipient
South St Louis Soil & Water Conservation District
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$146,000
Fund Source

The purpose of this contract is to augment data collection efforts for the St. Louis River (SLR) Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) and for four impaired Duluth beaches. For the SLR WRAPS, activities include: attaining datasets for watershed stressors and geomorphic conditions, water quality gap monitoring, and a civic engagement component. Impaired beaches activities include: collection of field observational data, field water chemistry, and water quality samples for analytical analysis.

St. Louis
Recipient
Carlton County SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$23,758
Fund Source

Beginning in June 2019, the St Louis River Watershed will start the second round of the Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategies (WRAPS) process. This project helps the Carlton County SWCD (SWCD) initiate a broader citizen participation process in the Watershed. The SWCD staff will be enabled to create a greater degree of public interest in and awareness of the general health of the Watershed. This work will create the foundation for greater citizen involvement in the planning and implementation of restoration and protection activities in the Watershed.

Carlton
St. Louis
Recipient
North St. Louis SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$12,457
Fund Source

The project provides the opportunity for the North Saint Louis Soil and Water Conservation District (NSLSWCD) to engage in efforts to increase public participation in the St. Louis River Watershed and participate in the planning and technical review of the Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategies (WRAPS) process. NSLSWCD contains the headwaters of the St. Louis River Watershed. The District’s knowledge of the area, communities, and organizations puts them in a unique position to work cooperatively in the watershed.

Carlton
Itasca
St. Louis
Recipient
DNR
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,777,000
Fund Source

MNDNR’s St. Louis River Restoration Initiative (SLRRI) is a collaborative program that has successfully enhanced and restored the ecological diversity of this unique and valuable resource. The vision for the Estuary includes diverse, productive, and healthy aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems of the river and watershed. Contributing to this vision, MNDNR will restore 133 acres of priority aquatic and riparian habitat at multiple sites in the Estuary in partnership with the Minnesota Land Trust.

St. Louis
Recipient
DNR
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,392,000
Fund Source

DNR's St. Louis River Restoration Initiative (SLRRI) advanced multiple large-scale habitat restoration projects. ML2017 funds contributed to:

St. Louis
Recipient
Tetra Tech
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$189,975
Fund Source

The objectives of this project are to update and extend the simulation periods of the St. Louis River and Cloquet River watershed Hydrologic Simulation Program – FORTRAN (HSPF) model and the Duluth urban area HSPF model and conduct recalibration of the hydrology and water quality simulations. The model updates will support work to update the existing Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) reports.

Aitkin
Carlton
Itasca
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Barr Engineering Company
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$44,846
Fund Source

State resource agencies are implementing a delisting strategy for the St. Louis River Area of Concern (AOC) by completing the Remedial Action Plan (RAP). A suite of 80 management actions in the RAP were developed to address specific Beneficial Use Impairments (BUI) identified throughout the estuary. Removing these legacy impacts often involves restoring historically altered habits by manipulating sediment characteristics, restoring shoreline function, and constructing under water features.

St. Louis
Recipient
DNR
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,024,000
Fund Source

MNDNR's St. Louis River Restoration Initiative (SLRRI) is a collaborative program enhancing and restoring the St. Louis River estuary. This 12,000 acre estuary is a unique resource of statewide significance. SLRRI's vision for the estuary includes diverse, productive, and healthy aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems of the river and watershed. MNDNR and MN Land Trust's SLRRI Phase 8 will restore an additional 155 acres of priority aquatic, wetland, and forested habitat for important fish, game, and SGCN.

St. Louis
Recipient
St Louis, South SWCD
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,228,654
Fund Source
Carlton
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
St. Louis County Fair
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,783

To offer new arts and cultural heritage programming at the St. Louis County Fair. Programming will include performances by Irish Dancers, a Native American pow-wow, children's theater, vaudeville, and music featuring a barbershop quartet, gospel, and Americana songs.

St. Louis
Recipient
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$163,100
Fund Source

This project will provide a protocol for prioritizing sites in the St. Louis Area of Concern (AOC ) for restoration based on site-specific bioavailability considerations. Despite large data collection efforts focused on sediment chemistry, the extent to which sediment with moderate levels of contamination is available for uptake into biota and therefore contributing to Beneficial Use Impairments (BUI)s is still largely unknown.

St. Louis
Lake
Carlton
Recipient
Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To document in 18 oral history interviews the history of the migration of the Minneapolis Jewish community from the city's North Side to St. Louis Park, 1945-1975.
Hennepin
Recipient
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (USEPA-GLRI)
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$219,668
Fund Source

The St. Louis River Area of Concern (SLRAOC) conservation partners are focused on removing Beneficial Use Impairments (BUI) in the estuary and eventually delisting the SLRAOC. Cooperative efforts between multiple resource agencies and regional stakeholders have identified a host of restoration objectives, developed project support activities, and partially secured funding that includes a state commitment through the Minnesota Clean Water Fund.

Carlton
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (USEPA-GLRI)
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,112,252
Fund Source

The St. Louis River Area of Concern (SLRAOC) conservation partners are focused on removing Beneficial Use Impairments (BUI) in the estuary and eventually delisting the SLRAOC. Cooperative efforts between multiple resource agencies and regional stakeholders have identified a host of restoration objectives, developed project support activities, and partially secured funding that includes a state commitment through the Minnesota Clean Water Fund.

Carlton
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Tetra Tech Inc
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$50,000
Fund Source

The goal of the St. Louis River Watershed Mercury Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) is to determine the mercury reductions needed to meet the water quality standards for mercury and support healthy consumption of fish by people and wildlife. Fishing is important in this watershed for economic and cultural reasons, including the exercise of tribal treaty rights; Fond du Lac’s 0.77 ng/L water quality standard protects subsistence fishing. This project will result in the development of the Mercury TMDL calculations and associated mercury source assessment.

Aitkin
Carlton
Itasca
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
DNR
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,280,000
Fund Source

MNDNR's St. Louis River Restoration Initiative (SLRRI) is a collaborative program enhancing and restoring this unique and valuable resource. The SLRRI's vision for the estuary includes diverse, productive, and healthy aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems of the river and watershed. Contributing to this vision, MNDNR works with partners throughout the 12,000-acre estuary to identify and prioritize key projects and implement previously identified projects that restore 35 acres of priority aquatic and riparian habitat.

St. Louis
Recipient
Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,998
To document in 18 interviews the story of Jewish migration to St. Louis Park, 1950-1970
Hennepin
Recipient
City of Duluth Community Development Division
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$225,000

To rehabilitate the interior and exterior of the St. Louis County Jail, a contributing element of the Duluth Civic Center Historic District and listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

St. Louis
Recipient
Tetra Tech
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$156,977
Fund Source

This project will gather watershed data necessary for the development of a Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) report to maintain and improve water quality for the St Louis River Watershed.

Aitkin
Carlton
Itasca
Pine
St. Louis
Recipient
City of Duluth
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,375,000
Recipient
City of Duluth
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
Recipient
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) & U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA)
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$750,000
Fund Source

This project will provide technical, planning and engineering assistance to the MPCA for the development and implementation of the St. Louis River Remedial Action Plan (RAP). USACE and USEPA in partnership with the MPCA will administer work plans to complete a sediment assessment for Minnesota areas within Superior Bay, St. Louis Bay, Lower St. Louis River and the Upper St. Louis River, encompassing approximately 5,349 acres of the St. Louis River and Estuary.

Carlton
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
St. Louis County - Sand Lake
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$60,000
Fund Source

Evaluate alternatives to fix failing septic systems in unsewered area

St. Louis
Recipient
LimnoTech
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$99,951
Fund Source

The purpose of this project is to provide technical support to data generators and users of the Saint Louis River Area of Concern (SLRAOC) to support the Beneficial Use Impairment (BUI) removal process.

Carlton
St. Louis
Recipient
Tetra Tech Inc
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$165,599
Fund Source

The St. Louis River watershed is one of the largest watersheds in northern Minnesota and the largest single contributing watershed to Lake Superior. Surface waters are abundant with 353 lakes and 97 streams segments. Large areas of forest and wetlands help to sustain areas of exceptional water quality. However, land use changes have degraded many lakes, rivers, and streams. 21 stream reaches have aquatic life impairments, as identified by high turbidity (1 reach), poor quality aquatic macro-invertebrate community (16 reaches), and/or poor quality fish community (12 reaches).

Aitkin
Carlton
Itasca
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Bay West Inc
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$44,831
Fund Source

This project is completing Feasibility Study Addendums and updating other project documents for Thomson and Scanlon Reservoirs, and Mud Lake W sites in the St. Louis River Area of Concern (AOC).

Carlton
St. Louis
Recipient
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,201,200
Fund Source

This Partnership Agreement is a 5-year effort that will provide the technical, planning and engineering assistance for implementation of the 2013 St. Louis River Area of Concern Remedial Action Plan. Through this agreement the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and MPCA will develop detailed work plans and construction design plans for numerous sites in the project AOC and assist with critical AOC-wide issues. • 21st Avenue West Restoration Site. Outcome will be preliminary to final engineering designs and costs ready for bid package development. • Knowlton Creek Site.

St. Louis
Recipient
DNR
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,290,000
Fund Source

Chambers Grove: restored a natural shoreline, improved fish spawning habitat, and planted native shoreline vegetation (completed in 2015).

Kingsbury Bay: completed engineering and design; began restoration of a wetland complex impacted by excessive sediment and non-native species (to be completed Dec 2020). 

Grassy Point: completed engineering and design; began restoration of a wetland complex impacted by legacy milling waste and non-native species (to be completed Dec 2020).

St. Louis
Recipient
DNR
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,707,000
Fund Source

Kingsbury Bay: completed engineering, design, permitting, and contracting.  Began a multi-year restoration of a wetland complex impacted by excessive sediment and non-native species in 2019 (to be completed fall 2021). 

Grassy Point: completed engineering, design, permitting, and contracting. Began a multi-year restoration of a wetland complex impacted by legacy milling waste and non-native species in 2019 (to be completed fall 2021).

St. Louis
Recipient
St. Louis Park Historical Society
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,997
To add 37 rolls of microfilmed St. Louis Park newspapers to make primary records more accessible to the public.
Hennepin
Recipient
St. Louis County
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
Fund Source

St. Louis County's Comprehensive Water Management Plan Update 2010-2020 identifies providing financial assistance to qualifying homeowners to upgrade or replace failing septic systems as a Priority 2 action. Funds from the FY-16 Clean Water Fund Projects and Practices Grant will be used to provide funding to low-income homeowners to repair or replace SSTS identified as Imminent Threat to Public Health (ITPH) within the following watersheds: Lake Superior South, St.

St. Louis
Recipient
Louisburg, City of
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$16,450
Fund Source

Evaluate alternatives to fix failing septic systems in unsewered area

Lac qui Parle
Recipient
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,289
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,207
Fund Source

USGS will make streamflow discharge measurements at lowflow measuring stations throughout the state. Measurements will be made during lowflow conditions. On average 100 measurements will be made during FY2012. Stream flow measurements will be entered into the USGS database and made available on the USGS Low Flow Data for Minnesota Streams website.

Statewide
Recipient
City of Stillwater
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,375
Washington