All Projects

The Children’s Discovery Museum (CDM) continued aggressive School Service Program (SSP) enrollment strategies to reach the seven new counties of Becker, Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Todd, and Wadena. A new Wizard of Oz exhibit was mounted in time for the 75th Anniversary Celebration, June 10-14, 2014.

State leadership for the 4-H Shooting Sports & Wildlife Program, including staff and 4-H volunteer committee members, will provide a menu of equipment options for local programs to choose from as a means to build their Shooting Sports & Wildlife project. Local programs will submit a grant application justifying how the new equipment will help them build and grow their program, attract and engage new audiences, and provide sustainability in their local chapter.

The Children's Discovery Museum in Grand Rapids will build on recent enrollment momentum and further increase participation with its School Service Program, which takes down the economic barriers for visiting school groups. The Legacy grant will fund more educators and facilitators, curriculum development, scholarship aid, transportation assistance, art and teaching supplies, and the addition of a new exhibit to the museum.

Implement cover crops, no tillage management, forestry improvements, and prescribed grazing to improve soil health, sequester carbon, and protect drinking water within the southwestern portion of the Mississippi River-Sartell watershed, including areas immediate upsteam of the St. Cloud drinking water surface intake. This will be achieved by providing financial and technical assistance paired with targeted outreach and in combination with other CWF grant programs.

to construct an aggregate base on off ramp on the trail on the west side of US Hwy 10 and the Burlington Northern RR tracks

Remove concrete, fill annular space with grout, fabricate well head, paint interior piping, reinstall pump, motor and drop pipe to stop potential source of contamination from entering city wells.

Replace pump & communication controls for wells and tower.

Purchase and installation of switch gear and wiring.

Direct mailing to residents in the DWSMA. Direct mailing to owners of the potential contaminant sources. Seal unused wells.

Hire electrician to properly setup wiring and transfer switch to connect to a generator.

Contract a hydrogeologic field inventory of groundwater level collection equipment.

Purchase and installation set-up for a generator.

Seal abandoned well #9, unique well number 269273 within the DWSMA

Irrigate its clarified effluent from Lime storage pond #6 instead of discharging to Mississippi River

Well site study

Drill pilot wells to locate alternative water supply; Drill 4 test wells near Little Falls Fire Hall to check water quality and quantity

Find site and develop well for city residents. Drill two test wells, supply and install well screen for two test wells, and grout, log and sample two wells.

Nitrate treatment installation

Develop a groundwater flow model

Seal 4 wells 581065, 603824; Install fence around RPSWD wells

Sonic drilling and sealing abandoned well #8 (269272)

Install treatment - nitrate reduction system

Grout annular space of Well #8

Drill test wells to determine location of new well due to nitrate contamination

Seal annular space around well #4

Replace water softening system and add nitrate reduction system.

Locate potential abandoned municipal wells; Seal wells 269265, 269266

Install raw water piping from the new well field to the treatment plant

Capping and sealing an existing well.

Purchase and installation of a generator

Hire well driller to complete exploratory drilling and water quality sampling.

Hire consulting firm to provide professional engineering and hydro-geotechnical analysis for municipal well site selection, alternatives for test wells, and a future production well to serve as a back-up emergency water supply (Phase 2).