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Audubon Center of the North Woods
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,500
To hire qualified professionals to repair joists and beams on the Schwyzer Lodge, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Pine
Recipient
U of MN
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$545,000

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Ramsey
Recipient
Science Museum of Minnesota
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$891,000

This funding will improve our collection of artifacts representing Minnesota's cultural heritage and create new forms of statewide cultural heritage educational opportunities for audiences of all ages.

To learn more about the Science Museum of Minnesota, click here.

Statewide
Recipient
MN DNR
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,540,000

Minnesota’s Scientific and Natural Areas (SNA) Program is an effort to preserve and perpetuate the state’s ecological diversity and ensure that no single rare feature is lost from any region of the state. This includes landforms, fossil remains, plant and animal communities, rare and endangered species, and other unique biotic or geological features. These sites play an important role in scientific study, public education, and outdoor recreation.

Statewide
Recipient
DNR
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,750,000

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Statewide
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,033

Scott Novotny is a successful comedy writer (Saturday Night Live) and stand-up comedian. He presented workshops on writing comedy, and he performed “family friendly” stand up comedy.

Recipient
Scott County Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To hire a qualified historian to conduct primary source research on the history of Scott County.
Scott
Recipient
Northfield Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,642

To provide full ADA-compliant access to the Scriver Block, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with an elevator and grade access entrance.

Rice
Recipient
Multiple public water systems
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$113,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
Fund Source

Approximately 70 percent of all Minnesotans rely on groundwater as their primary source of drinking water. Wells used for drinking water must be properly sealed when removed from service to protect both public health and Minnesota’s invaluable groundwater resources. The Minnesota Department of Health protects both public health and groundwater by assuring the proper sealing of unused wells.
Clean Water funds are being provided to well owners as a 50% cost-share assistance for sealing unused public water-supply wells.

Anoka
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Cook
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Faribault
Fillmore
Hennepin
Lyon
McLeod
Morrison
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Sherburne
Sibley
St. Louis
Stearns
Steele
Swift
Todd
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Winona
Wright
Recipient
Wayzata Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

A preliminary National Register assessment of Wayzata's Section Foreman House was prepared for the Wayzata Historical Society by a qualified historic preservation consultant. The final report included a description of the house, the context of its relationship to the Great Northern Railway and the city of Wayzata, the role of a section foreman and standard designs for section houses. The report was submitted to the MN State Historic Preservation Office for review. It was recommended that restoration commence before a National Register Nomination is completed.

Hennepin
Recipient
Carlton SWCD
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$119,522
Fund Source

The Red Clay Project was a 1970's era project that encompassed watersheds in Northeast Minnesota and Northern Wisconsin draining to Lake Superior. In Minnesota, efforts focused on sediment retention structures in two subwatersheds of the Nemadji River Basin in Carlton County. Sixteen structures were constructed in the Skunk Creek Watershed and four structures were constructed in the Deer Creek Watershed. The design life of these structures was 10-25 years depending on the specific project and the design life has now been exceeded.

Carlton
Recipient
Carver County
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$47,000
Fund Source

Lake Minnewashta Regional Park, build grade separated trail crossing at TH 41 and build 2.6 miles of trail linking a city trail system to the regional park.

Carver
Recipient
Dakota County
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$63,000
Fund Source

Over the past two years, Dakota County has learned that many properties within the city do not have septic system records identifying the presence or condition of their septic system, and anecdotal evidence that some are failing. The County will use CWF Accelerated Implementation Grant dollars to inventory and inspect all septic systems within the City of Randolph. As part of the inspection, a well inventory will also be conducted. Based on a preliminary assessment, there are 105 properties that will require inspection.

Dakota
Recipient
Murray County
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$60,000
Fund Source

Replace picnic shelter and playground, add accessible walkway to the fishing pier, volleyball court and an accessible campsite.

Recipient
Minnesota State University- Mankato
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$34,345
Fund Source

The Seven Mile Creek Condition Monitoring project will maintain and build on the continuous flow and water quality data base at three stream sites and one county tile in the Seven Mile Creek watershed through the collection of approximately eighty five water samples per monitoring season in preparation for the Middle Minnesota Intensive Watershed Monitoring scheduled to begin in 2013.

Blue Earth
Brown
Cottonwood
Le Sueur
Nicollet
Redwood
Renville
Sibley
Watonwan
Recipient
Rice County
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$69,350
Fund Source

Shattuck Saint Mary's, located atop of a bluff area upland of the east bank of the Straight River, encompasses a land area of 324 acres that contains over 16,426 miles of mild to extensively eroded ravines and gullies; many of which directly discharge to the Straight River. In addition to pollutant loads in runoff from the school's watershed and eroded ravines, banks and gullies, the Straight River also experiences pollutant loading from eroding stream banks in this reach; annual sediment loads average 1,962 tons per year.

Rice
Recipient
RESPEC
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,996
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to leverage the existing Hydrological Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) model application that has been calibrated and validated for the Shell Rock River Watershed to assist with wastewater permitting. The contractor will deliver all modeling files and a final technical memorandum outlining the scenarios developed, how the scenarios are represented in the model, and the impact these scenarios have on water quality at specified locations for parameters of concern as described below.

Freeborn
Recipient
Sacred Heart Area Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,474

SHAHS acquired shelving and conservation materials to re-organize, consolidate and store collections, especially artifacts documenting the Sacred Heart High School, using proper historical conservation methods. Improved care and management will extend the life of the resources stored in the archival library. Better organization makes the collections more useable to patrons and staff.

Renville
Recipient
Wabasha County Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,993
To improve collections care and management through proper storage.
Wabasha
Recipient
Sherburne County Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,603
To document quilts in Sherburne County, allowing for greater public access to these historic resources.
Sherburne
Recipient
Great Lakes Shipwreck Preservation Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,605
To hire qualified consultants to evaluate the Shipwreck Harriet B for possible inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places.
Lake
Fund Source

Replacement of a shared use, trail and vehicular traffic, bridge over the Little Iowa River within the boundaries of Lake Louise State Park.

Mower
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Washington County
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,250,000

The St. Croix River is one of the most pristine, large river ecosystems remaining in the upper Mississippi River System. Washington County, in partnership with the City of Stillwater, is using this appropriation to acquire 15 acres containing 3,500 feet of St. Croix River shoreline just north of downtown Stillwater and parallel to the Brown’s Creek State Trail. The land will be turned into a local nature park for trail users, river users, tourists, and area residents with passive recreation including fishing, boat launching, walking, and picnicking.

Washington
Recipient
Wright SWCD
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,200
Fund Source

The purpose of this project is to create an inventory and priority list of where inlet control and buffer strips are needed along Judicial Ditch 15 to reduce the nutrients, sediment and volume of water being transported by field tile. This will help protect landowner drainage needs, while focusing on applicable best management practices that will reduce on-field and in-channel peak flow erosion. This ditch system is the headwaters to Cokato Lake, which connects to the North Fork Crow River.

Wright
Recipient
Chippewa River Watershed Project
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$271,073
Fund Source

The Chippewa River Watershed Project will work with local partners, such as Land Stewardship Project, soil and water conservation districts, and the Natural Resources Conservation Service, to restore water quality in Lake Gilchrist, Simon Lake, Lake Johanna and in Mud Creek, and to protect unimpaired water resources in the watershed. This will be done through implementation of Best Management Practices focusing on the reduction of phosphorous, sediment, and runoff in the landscape, primarily by increasing the landscape's ability to retain water.

Pope
Recipient
Rachel A. Nelson
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250

Present a workshop using physicality in storytelling at the annual Northland Storytelling Network Conference.

Lake
Recipient
Catherine Wright
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250
Attend workshop on how to plan, write and develop a book.
St. Louis
Recipient
Steven Read
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250
Prepare work for 2 installation shows.
St. Louis
Recipient
Jessica A. Roeder
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250
Attend teacher training workshop for Dance for Parkinsons Disease.
St. Louis
Recipient
Barbara Savage
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250
Prepare work for exhibition at Washington Studio Galleries in Duluth.
St. Louis
Recipient
Deborah J. Sussex
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250
Produce exhibition.
St. Louis
Recipient
Calvin Stalvig
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250

Prepare work for exhibition.

St. Louis
Recipient
Kristina Estell
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250
Complete an installation exhibition.
St. Louis
Recipient
Andrew A. Turpening
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$703
Purchase electronic keyboard and update piano, bass and drum set software on that keyboard.
St. Louis
Recipient
Saint Charles Community Education AKA Saint Charles Youth Theatre
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250
Two public performances of Sleeping Beauty.
Winona
Recipient
Berne Swissfest
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$750
Guest entertainer expenses for Swissfest.
Dodge
Recipient
Bluff Country Studio Art Tour
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$750
May 2011 studio art tour.
Winona
Recipient
Chatfield Brass Band, Inc.
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$750
Music in the Park concert series.
Fillmore
Recipient
Dreamery Rural Arts Initiative AKA Flourish Summer Camp
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$688
Flourish summer camp in arts and agriculture.
Fillmore
Recipient
Lanesboro Community Theatre
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$750
Six performances of The Cemetery Club.
Fillmore