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Stearns County Fair Association
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,783

To enhance art access by improving the sound system on the fair’s “Heritage Stage.”

Stearns
Recipient
Stearns SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$12,500
Fund Source

Source Water Protection is one of the three priority concerns identified in the Stearns Comprehensive Local Water Managment Plan. Currently, Stearns County has 23 public water supplies with approved Wellhead Protection Plans. This encompasses approximately 65,000 acres of land in Drinking Water Supply Management Areas (DWSMA). This proposal will fund at least 10 unused well sealing projects within these sensitive areas.

Stearns
Recipient
Stearns SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$202,450
Fund Source
Stearns
Recipient
Stearns SWCD
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$174,301
Fund Source

The Stearns County Soil and Water Conservation District's (SWCD) Stump and Sagatagan Lakes Subwatershed Stormwater Treatment Projects will retrofit sub-catchment drainage areas on St. John's University (SJU) campus that drain untreated stormwater runoff directly into Stump and Sagatagan Lakes. This area of the region has been identified as ecologically significant by the Nature Conservancy's Eco-Regional Plan and the MN DNR's County Biological Survey.

Stearns
Recipient
Sauk River WD
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$160,000
Fund Source

Stearns County Ditch 26 (CD 26) is a 20 mile channelized section of Getchell Creek, a primary tributary to the Sauk River that is impaired for turbidity, E.coli and aquatic macroinvertebrate bio-assessment. The Stearns County Ditch 26 Drainage Management Project will address the stormwater runoff concerns identified within this public drainage system. Alternative intake structures to manage nutrients and mitigative measures will be taken to retain water on the upland properties and minimize flow rate and velocity.

Stearns
Recipient
Aitkin County Historical Society
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$895
Aitkin
Recipient
Schroeder Area Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,629
To grow the capacity of the organization to preserve and interpret history through a national training standard.
Cook
Recipient
Schroeder Area Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,375
To hire a qualified historian to write an evaluation to determine eligibility for listing the Stickney Building in the National Register of Historic Places.
Cook
Recipient
Regents of the University of Minnesota (Duluth - Kathryn A. Martin Library)
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

To hire a consultant to use the OCLC's Total Cost of Stewardship framework to develop a Collection Management and Development Policy.

Aitkin
Carlton
Cook
Itasca
Kanabec
Koochiching
Lake
Pine
St. Louis
Recipient
University of Minnesota-Duluth (NRRI)
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$148,869
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$89,828
Fund Source

This project will generate water quality data for 10 stream locations MPCA designated for their 2012 and 2013 open-water sampling seasons (8 by NRRI-UMD and 2 via subcontract to the North St. Louis SWCD). The overall project goal is to collect event-based physical and chemical data sets for 10 agency-prioritized stream sampling sites in NE Minnesota for calculating pollutant loads and for incorporation into the overall State database for MPCA assessment purposes.

Cook
Koochiching
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
St. Cloud, City of
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$270,000
Fund Source
Benton
Stearns
Recipient
Children's Discovery Museum
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$22,000

The Children's Discovery Museum's (CDM) new 3,000 piece Wizard of Oz (WOZ) collection will be properly archived, conservation materials purchased, and exhibit concept and design drawings completed. CDM facilitators and educators will travel to other children's museums in Minnesota for staff enrichment and professional development.

Aitkin
Becker
Beltrami
Carlton
Cass
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake of the Woods
Mahnomen
Mille Lacs
Morrison
St. Louis
Todd
Wadena
Recipient
Minnesota Discovery Center
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,229
Aitkin
Crow Wing
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Dovetail Partners, Inc.
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,000

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Cook
St. Louis
Recipient
University of Minnesota
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$16,283
Fund Source

This project will provide complementary (same year) physical and chemical data sets for three MPCA prioritized lakes in NE Minnesota to incorporate into the overall State database for MPCA assessment purposes as well as research purposes.

Aitkin
Carlton
Itasca
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Pine County Soil and Water Conservation DIstrict
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$39,326
Fund Source

The Pine County SWCD project will collect complete sets of water quality data for the Kettle River and some of its tributaries and also collect complete sets of water quality data for six area lakes (Oak, Dago, Rhine, Elbow, Rock, and Lake Eleven).

Aitkin
Carlton
Kanabec
Pine
Recipient
Aitkin County Soil and Water Conservation District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,900
Fund Source

This project will monitor sites at the Sandy River, Bass Lake, and Remote Lake located in the Big Sandy Lake Watershed.

Aitkin
Cass
Itasca
Recipient
St. Louis River Citizen Action Committee
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$48,685
Fund Source

The St. Louis River Alliance will complete the data set for the water quality assessment of six target streams in the Lake Superior Basin. These streams are the Gooseberry River, Beaver River, Lester River, Big Sucker River, Split Rock River and Knife River. In addition, the St. Louis River Alliance will complete the data set for the water quality assessment of two non-target streams in the St. Louis River watershed. These two streams are Coffee Creek and Buckingham Creek. The St.

Aitkin
Carlton
Cook
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Becker County Soil and Water Conservation District
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$19,176
Fund Source

This project involves monitoring three data deficient lakes in the Crow Wing River Watershed and one stream site at the inlet to White Earth Lake. The data deficient lakes were on the MPCA Targeted watershed list. After getting the required assessment dataset for these lakes, all targeted lakes in Becker County will be completed for this assessment cycle. The stream site is a site that the White Earth Lake Association and the Becker Coalition of Lake Associations (COLA) will monitor. It is the inlet to White Earth Lake.

Becker
Cass
Clay
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Mahnomen
Morrison
Norman
Otter Tail
Polk
Todd
Wadena
Recipient
Cook County Soil and Water Conservation District
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$22,139
Fund Source

This project will collect a complete data set for total phosphorous and chlorophyll-a for 6 Cook County lakes while fostering lake association participation, ownership and understanding of their lakes. While many Cook County lakes have participated in the Citizen Lake Monitoring Program (CLMP) taking Secchi disk readings, these same lakes are deficient in basic lake chemistry data such as total phosphorus and chlorophyll-a.

Cook
Recipient
Headwaters Science Center (HSC)
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$45,229
Fund Source

This project will include stream monitoring of six preselected sites from the Leech Lake Watershed (HUC 07010102) and Pine River Watershed (HUC 07010105). The sites will be monitored for chemical, physical and biological parameters for two years.

Aitkin
Beltrami
Cass
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Recipient
Hubbard County Soil and Water Conservation District
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$11,509
Fund Source

This project will collect water quality data for 13 Hubbard County lakes located in the Crow Wing priority watershed and identified as priority lakes by the MPCA. Upon completion the project data set will include all of the necessary information for the lakes to be assessed for impairment due to nutrients. Volunteers will collect samples from 7 of the 13 lakes and paid SWCD staff will collect samples from 6 of the lakes that do not have public access or volunteers willing to sample. The water samples will be collected 5 times/year June-September in 2010 and 2011.

Becker
Cass
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Morrison
Otter Tail
Todd
Wadena
Recipient
Aitkin SWCD
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$260,194
Fund Source

Well-managed forests deliver the optimal quantity and quality of surface runoff and groundwater water recharge possible. This Forest Management and outreach program will help protect, preserve, and improve water quality and related water resources by hiring a Regional Clean Water Forester. The Forester will help LGUs in Technical Service Areas (TSA) 3 and 8 increase installation of water quality-related forestry practices.

Aitkin
Recipient
Crow Wing SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$475,000
Fund Source

The Crow Wing County (CWC) Water Plan identifies Island-Loon Lake as a priority lake to enhance due to its significant decline in water clarity and high ratio of impervious surface surrounding the lake. To mitigate the runoff, the Crow Wing Soil and Water Conservation District will partner with the CWC HWY Department, City of Crosslake, Crosslakers, and Whitefish Area Property Owners Association to install three mechanical separators and 13,500 square feet bioretention area that will reduce six pounds of phosphorus and 1 ton of sediment per year from entering the lake.

Crow Wing
Recipient
Cook County Soil and Water Conservation District
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$126,125
Fund Source

Increased development pressure on shorelines and lakes with declining water quality is a concern in Cook County. To work towards reducing nutrient loading in lakes, the county has systematically prioritized lakeshore properties for SSTS inspections. The next three highly developed lakes identified for inspection are within the Lake Superior North Watershed. Monitoring has provided evidence of declining water quality in these lakes.

Cook
Recipient
Willicey A. Tynes
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,775
Area Learning Center Painting and Drawing
Stearns
Recipient
Willicey A. Tynes
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,355
Still Life comp and painting
Stearns
Recipient
Jill D. Dubbeldee Kuhn
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,800
Talahi Gym Mural
Stearns
Recipient
Jill D. Dubbeldee Kuhn
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,600
Talahi Hallway Mural
Stearns
Recipient
Willicey A. Tynes
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,800
Painting and Drawing
Stearns
Recipient
Cristina E. Seaborn
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,800
Teaching Roster Artist in Residency
Stearns
Recipient
RESPEC
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,098
Fund Source

A contractor with knowledge of Site Specific Standard development will respond to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) questions and concerns regarding attainability of standards based on the BATHTUB model data. In addition, they will review technical memorandums developed by Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) on aquatic life and aquatic recreational standard attainability.

Douglas
Meeker
Morrison
Pope
Stearns
Todd
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RESPEC
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,549
Fund Source

RESPEC is a contractor with knowledge of site-specific standard development and will respond to United States Environmental Protection Agency questions and concerns regarding attainability of standards. The response will be based on bathtub model data and also a review of technical memorandums developed by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency on aquatic life and aquatic recreational standard attainability.

Douglas
Meeker
Morrison
Pope
Stearns
Todd
Recipient
Area 8 - North Central MN SWCDs JPB
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
Fund Source

A new GIS technician will help prioritize and target conservation activities and protection strategies in nine north-central Minnesota counties. The GIS technician will create GIS products, assessments, and watershed analysis to identify the high priority areas in each County or watershed in need of protection or restoration using all available data, including LiDAR, soils, land use, completed WRAPS and other datasets. These areas will then be targeted for future resource management efforts, Clean Water Fund projects, and additional conservation activities.

Beltrami
Cass
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake of the Woods
Wadena
Recipient
Sauk River Watershed District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$168,421
Fund Source

The Sauk River watershed was selected to participate in the federal Mississippi River Basin Initiative (MRBI) program in 2010 to decrease nutrient contributions to the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. The MRBI program provides federal cost share funds to landowners to install conservation practices.

Douglas
Pope
Stearns
Todd
Recipient
Laura Sellner
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,240

Technology/Equipment Grant

St. Louis
Lake
Aitkin
Cook
Carlton
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Lily Winter
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$949

Technology/Equipment Grant

Itasca
St. Louis
Crow Wing
Cass
Beltrami
Recipient
Cheryl L. Larsen
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,122

Technology/Equipment Grant

Cook
Recipient
Elizabeth J. Belz
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,800

Technology/Equipment Grant

Cook
Recipient
David A. Everett
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$900

Technology/Equipment Grant

St. Louis
Lake
Cook