All Projects

Provide first half of annual rent payment (2018-2019) to landowner to allow City to implement nitrogen BMPs on field immediately upgradient of high nitrate public supply well.

Provide payments to farmers to supplement Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) for incentive to not use nitrogen to grow row crops

Connect to Lincoln-Pipestone Rural Water System

Replace two septic systems in high vulnerability zone and connect two residential properties to city sewer.

Provide first half of rent payment to landowner to allow city to implement nitrogen BMPs on field. Purchase and custom seed rye to scavenge up the residual nitrogen in the soil to keep it from getting into groundwater.

Construct well. Seal well.

Provide second half annual rent payment to landowner. Field prep and mowing. Combining, drilling and seeding.

Supplement CRP payments to 2 land owners.

Sealing a 30" in diameter by 20' deep tile well.

Provide the first half of annual rent payment (2020-2021) to land owner to allow city to implement nitrogen BMP's on field immediately upgradient of high nitrate public supply well.

Seal municipal well

Install a standby generator at water treatment facility.

Seal well #1.

Provide second half of annual rent payment (2021-2022) to landowner to allow city to implement nitrogen BMP's. Combining and mowing of Kernza.

Phase 2 to seal well #1.

Monitoring well installation and GW data collection.

Supplemental CRP payments to a local land owner.

Install shallow monitoring well and collect groundwater data. (Phase 2)

Provide first half of annual rent payment (2020-2021) to landowner to allow city to implement nitrogen BMP's.

Collect and analyze groundwater data. (Phase 3)

Rehab/Rebuild city well #1.

Collect/analyze data to better define potential groundwater surface interaction near the city's well field.

Provide second half of annual rent Payment (2022-2023) to landowner to allow city to implement nitrogen BMP's. Seed and seeding of oats. Combining oats and Kernza.

GW and SW data collection near the ciy's well field.

Purchase and install a generator for well #2. Phase 1

Supplemental CRP payments to a local land owner.

Provide the first half annual rent payment (2022-2023) to landowner to allow city to implement nitrogen BMP's on field immediately upgradient of high nitrate public supply.

Provide money to supplement Conservation Reserve Program payments to farmers for incentive to not use nitrogen to grow row crops.

Evaluation of wells in well pit, Seal 4 wells within the DWSMA

Update PCSI wells/tanks inventory and public education

Investigate well integrity with camera, measure well casing and disinfection of well.

Provide second half of rent payment to landowner to allow city to implement nitrogen BMPs on field. Planting custom seed rye to scavenge up the residual nitrogen in the soil to keep it from getting into groundwater.

Seal unused well. Relocate and cover electrical conductor lines around the well.

Provide second half of annual rent payment to landowner for City to implement nitrogen BMPs on field, harvest the cereal rye and kernza already planted in the wellhead protection area and prepare fields and plant kernza in remaining 90 acres of wellhead p

Supplemental CRP Payments

Provide first half of annual rent payment (2019-2020) to landowner to allow city to implement nitrogen BMP's on field immediately upgradient of high nitrate public supply well.

Analyze drainage patterns; Stormwater infrastructure mapping throughout the DWSMA

Install onsite generator to assure water in the event of an emergency