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Recipient
Bluff Country Studio Art Tour
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,500
Bluff Country Studio Art Tour, April 26-28, 2013
Dakota
Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Hennepin
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Ramsey
Rice
Scott
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Southeast Minnesota Bluegrass Association
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,250
May 2013 Bluegrass Festival
Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Zumbrota Area Arts Council
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000
Small Towns/Rural Areas
Goodhue
Olmsted
Rice
Wabasha
Recipient
Bluff Country Studio Art Tour
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,500
Small Towns/Rural Areas
Dakota
Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Hennepin
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Ramsey
Rice
Scott
Steele
Wabasha
Waseca
Winona
Recipient
Bluff Country Studio Art Tour
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,500
Small Towns/Rural Areas
Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Mantorville Restoration Association
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,800
Small Towns/Rural Areas
Dodge
Fillmore
Goodhue
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Recipient
City of Peterson AKA Peterson Committee for the Arts
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,010
Small Towns/Rural Areas
Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Southeast Minnesota Bluegrass Association AKA SEMBA
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000
Small Towns/Rural Areas
Blue Earth
Dakota
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Hennepin
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Ramsey
Rice
Stearns
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Brave Community Theatre
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,860

Small Towns/Rural Areas

Dodge
Faribault
Fillmore
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Winona
Recipient
Southeast Minnesota Bluegrass Association
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,500

Small Towns/Rural Areas

Dodge
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Hennepin
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Ramsey
Rice
Stearns
Steele
Wabasha
Waseca
Winona
Recipient
Kasson-Mantorville School District 204
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000

Small Towns/Rural Areas Grant

Blue Earth
Dakota
Dodge
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Hennepin
Mower
Nicollet
Olmsted
Ramsey
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Waseca
Washington
Winona
Winona
Recipient
Traverse SWCD
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$275,000
Fund Source

The primary goal of this project is to protect public water supplies from contamination from nonpoint-sourced pollution by providing farmers with resources to implement soil health Best Management Practices (BMPs) within a set radius of municipal Drinking Water Supply Management Areas (DWSMAs) for cities within Traverse County. The secondary goal of the project is protection of public surface waters and measurable progress towards reduction of nutrient and sediment pollution to impaired watercourses.

Big Stone
Traverse
Wilkin
Recipient
Area 7 - Southeast SWCD Technical Support
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
Fund Source

The purpose of this project is to provide a new shared position in southeast Minnesota which will accelerate the adoption of soil health practices by leveraging the existing efforts of the National Resources Conservation Service and other organizations.

Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
U of MN - WCROC
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$475,000
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Cass
Chippewa
Clay
Clearwater
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Houston
Hubbard
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Lac qui Parle
Lake of the Woods
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Mahnomen
Marshall
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Mower
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Norman
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pennington
Pipestone
Polk
Pope
Red Lake
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Rock
Roseau
Sibley
Stearns
Steele
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Wabasha
Wadena
Waseca
Watonwan
Wilkin
Winona
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Somali Community Resettlement Services
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$40,000

This project will connect Somali youth to their rich cultural heritage through arts and language. The Somali Youth Cultural Empowerment project will ensure youth learn their native Somali language and culture through classes taught by Somali teachers and will participate in the cultural tradition of Danta Dance. A dance group will perform at cultural events, with music performed live from previous members of the Somali supergroup, Waaberi, and thus, share Somali art culture with Minnesotans.

Hennepin
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Recipient
Somali Community Resettlement Services
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$90,000

The Somali Language and Culture Classes Project will honor and preserve Somali culture by first, connecting Somali youth to their rich cultural heritage through arts and language classes and second, by providing a class for others in the mainstream Minnesota community to learn about Somali language and culture. This project will pilot teaching Somali language and culture through utilizing taped sessions with an in-person bi-lingual facilitator in order to allow for future sustainability.

Hennepin
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Statewide
Recipient
Somali Community Resettlement Services
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000

The goal is to develop a “Basic Somali Language and Culture Class” curriculum. This course will be a tailored 20 – 30-hour training for people in the business community as well as Somali youth. Each class session with have an element of language and an element of culture.

Rice
Steele
Recipient
City of Faribault
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,330
Fund Source

Update PCSI inventory

Rice
Recipient
City of Faribault
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,125
Fund Source

Video inspections to wells #1, #3, and #5.

Rice
Recipient
City of Browns Valley
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source

Purchase and connect generator.

Traverse
Recipient
City of Nerstrand
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source

Purchase and install back-up generator.

Rice
Recipient
City of Browns Valley
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source

Purchase and connect a generator to the pump house.

Traverse
Recipient
City of Browns Valley
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,414
Fund Source
Install informational signs; Install security lights; Replace well houses doors and windows
Traverse
Recipient
City of Browns Valley
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,425
Fund Source

Wellhead Protection newspaper article. Seal 2 private wells. Seal old municipal wells/test wells. Mail BMP materials to owners of potential contaminant.

Traverse
Recipient
City of Browns Valley
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,246
Fund Source

Hire electrician to install security lights and connect generator to wells and water plant.

Traverse
Recipient
City of Lonsdale
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source

Seal well #3.

Rice
Recipient
City of Northfield
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,320
Fund Source

Update drawdown equipment; Inspect private wells within the DWSMA

Rice
Recipient
Cedar Lake Electric
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,748
Fund Source

Connect to City of Faribault water system; Abandon existing well

Rice
Recipient
City of Northfield
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,900
Fund Source

Signage, test Spring Creek, emergency manual

Rice
Recipient
City of Northfield
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,367
Fund Source

Purchase transducer to be installed on the new municipal well

Rice
Recipient
City of Wheaton
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source

Rehabilitate well #2

Traverse
Recipient
City of Browns Valley
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$543
Fund Source

Seal wells on private property; Educate businesses about proper tank management; Provide DWSMA map to MPCA tank units; Above ground storage tanks - updated rules and regulations; educate businesses; Provide DWSMA map to road authorities; WHP education and

Traverse
Recipient
City of Browns Valley
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,608
Fund Source

Release newsletter and other educational materials about wellhead protection; Distribute brochures and fact sheets explaining the purpose of the WHP plan; Cosponsor kids water festival; Promote sealing of unused, unsealed wells; Locate existing or new wel

Traverse
Recipient
City of Browns Valley
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,153
Fund Source

Seal 3 unused wells on private property 313220, 313222, 313221

Traverse
Recipient
The Nature Conservancy
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000

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.

Dakota
Goodhue
Olmsted
Rice
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Southeast Minnesota Water Resources Board-Winona State University
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$109,128
Fund Source

The goal of the project is to sustain the existing Volunteer Nitrate Monitoring Network (VNMN) domestic well network for long-term groundwater quality studies by generating ambient groundwater quality data in domestic drinking water wells completed in various southeastern Minnesota aquifers, contrasting vulnerable and non-vulnerable hydrogeologic settings.

Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Le Sueur
McLeod
Nicollet
Ramsey
Renville
Rice
Scott
Sibley
Recipient
Minnesota Department of Agriculture
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000
Fund Source

The purpose of this effort is to create an educational video that will “bring to life” geo-scientific information related to groundwater movement in southeast Minnesota. This video will be used by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA), Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) and other regional partners to help explain the local geology and related groundwater movement. It is anticipated that the video will be used at meetings and other events related to water resource management and natural resource issues. In addition, three stand alone high resolution graphics will be created.

Dakota
Dodge
Fillmore
Goodhue
Houston
Olmsted
Rice
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Board of Water and Soil Resources
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$253,000
Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
SE Minnesota Water Resources Board
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$263,400
Fund Source

The lack of sewage treatment in many small communities in Southeast Minnesota is causing surface water and groundwater pollution. Ten of these small communities will be the target of the technical assistance provided by this project. These communities have community or individual straight pipes which are discharging raw sewage directly into the environment, surfacing sewage, or have sewage contaminating groundwater.

Dakota
Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Le Sueur
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Waseca
Winona
Recipient
Preservation Alliance of Minnesota
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$80,310
Partner Organizations: Kasson Alliance for Restoration, Mantorville Restoration Association, Friends of Mayowood, Denmark Township Historical Society, Friends of Saint Rose, Preservation Lake City, County Historical Societies, Red Wing Downtown Main Street, Winona Main Street, Winona Area Chamber of Commerce, Faribault Main Street, and Faribault Area Chamber of Commerce and Tourism PAM will work to provide its partners with staff support, administration, supervision, and additional preservation and planning expertise.
Dakota
Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Washington
Winona