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.
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 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.
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
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.
Explore options to remove ISTS in High vulnerability area; Educate owners of PCS-s about WHP and BMP; Provide educational brochures of BMPs to owners of PCS in the DWSMA
Oftentimes water conservation efforts are directed toward impaired waters. However, it is much more cost-effective to protect habitat and water resources before they become degraded. The Nature Conservancy is using this appropriation to create a broader, long-term, watershed-based framework for proactively protecting habitat and water resources in southeast MN, specifically the Cannon River and Zumbro River watersheds, before they become degraded.
