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Recipient
City of Randolph
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,309
Fund Source

Install fencing around municipal well site; Update PCSI; Contact Randolph Township and Dakota County regarding land use permits and zoning; Research to identify site for new municipal well

Dakota
Recipient
City of Richfield
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source
Inspect commercial properties to prevent cross connections
Hennepin
Recipient
City of Sauk Rapids
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,900
Fund Source

Install sensors to monitor static and pumping levels of groundwater in wells #2 and #3

Benton
Recipient
City of Wabasha
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source

Collect data, perform inspections and create a storm sewer map for the City

Wabasha
Recipient
Hidden Valley Campground
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source

Construct new well; Seal existing well 259606

Fillmore
Recipient
Hope Glen Farm LLC
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,820
Fund Source

Construct a new well; Seal existing well 806040

Washington
Recipient
Lincoln Pipestone Rural Water System
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source

Promote landowner enrollment into easement programs

Lincoln
Recipient
Marshall Polk Rural Water System
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,207
Fund Source

Build a WHP website; Develop and distribute WHP informational brochure; Distribute information about unsealed wells to owners within the DWSMA

Marshall
Recipient
Moorhead Public Service
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,600
Fund Source

Televise well, perform maintenance and reinstall equipment (well#1 and well #2)

Clay
Recipient
Oaks on the River Campground
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$474
Fund Source
Extend well casing; replace well cap; install new conduit for electrical wiring serving the submersible pump
Sherburne
Recipient
Paynesville Evangelical Free Church
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,923
Fund Source

Construct new well and water lines; Seal existing well 325319; RO removal

Stearns
Recipient
Runeberg Apostolic Lutheran Church
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,878
Fund Source

Construct a new well; Seal existing well 699797

Becker
Recipient
City of Sauk Centre Public Utilities
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source

Develop emergency response plan; Well survey - locate missing or unknown wells in the DWSMA

Stearns
Recipient
Thunderbird Lodge
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,034
Fund Source

Construct new well

Koochiching
Recipient
First Lutheran Church of Highland
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,800
Fund Source

Investigate well integrity, camera well casing; cleaning

Fillmore
Recipient
Crow River Organization of Water
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$129,999
Fund Source

Phase I built the foundation for the South Fork Crow River Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) and created a civic engagement plan. Civic engagement strategies were identified to create greater communication and watershed activities. Phase II provided the analytical and strategic foundation essential to prescribing protection and restoration strategies. These strategies focus on both protecting current fully supporting and restoring impaired surface water resources to water quality standards in the South Fork watershed.

Carver
Hennepin
Kandiyohi
McLeod
Meeker
Renville
Sibley
Wright
Recipient
Becker SWCD
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$257,000
Fund Source

The South Branch Wild Rice Sediment Reduction Project will implement 45 erosion control structures and 40 acres of filter strips to reduce sediment loading to the South Branch of the Wild Rice River in Becker County. Sediment leaving the project area contributes to water quality impairments downstream where Total Suspended Solids (TSS) are affecting aquatic life and aquatic recreation. This project is projected to reduce sediment loads leaving the project area by 26% and reduce TSS in the Lower Wild Rice River by 7%.

Becker
Recipient
City of Lake City
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To hire a qualified historian to complete the nomination for a local historic district along South Oak Street in Lake City.
Wabasha
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
The Nature Conservancy; Trust for Public Land
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,765,700
Fund Source

Through this appropriation, The Nature Conservancy and Minnesota Land Trust protected 2,135 acres through fee acquisition and conservation easements. This includes over 7 miles of stream frontage. Three new Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) were created around the fee acquisitions, opening up 1,505 acres of habitat to public recreation. Restoration or enhancement work was completed on 225 acres of bluff prairies and forests, much of it on lands protected through this program.

Fillmore
Houston
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Southeastern Libraries Cooperating
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$459,484
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$514,072

Minnesota’s Legacy Amendment raises revenue for Clean Water, Outdoor Heritage, Parks and Trails, and Arts and Cultural Heritage. Libraries are beneficiaries of a portion of the Arts and Cultural Heritage Funding.

Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Southeastern Libraries Cooperating
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$287,524
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$287,524

Minnesota’s 12 regional public library systems, which encompass 350 public libraries in all areas of the state, benefit from a portion of the Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Through State Library Services, a division of the Minnesota Department of Education, each regional public library system receives a formula-driven allocation from the annual $3 million Minnesota Regional Library Legacy Grant.

Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Goodhue County Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$40,000

To develop a marketing plan for the Southern Minnesota History Co-op.

Statewide
Goodhue
Nicollet
Rice
Waseca
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$647,425
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$978,917
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$877,482
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$859,405
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$919,593
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$510,022
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$459,042
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$587,699
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$230,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$336,090
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$382,800
Fund Source

This program aims to meet emerging and unique project needs in the Minnesota State Parks and Trails system. The program has initiated activities around Buffalo herd management and has plans for other activities to be determined.

Statewide
Recipient
Multiple Local Government Units
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,357,221
Fund Source

Imminent Health Threat (IHT) systems are those that are discharging improperly treated human waste onto the ground surface or into surface waters. In addition to the potential water quality impacts, untreated sewage has the potential to introduce bacteria and viruses into the environment. When IHT systems are identified, county or city staff assist the homeowners through the process required to bring their systems into compliance with the septic ordinance.

Beltrami
Big Stone
Chippewa
Chisago
Cook
Dodge
Jackson
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Lincoln
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Pennington
Pipestone
Rice
Scott
Stearns
Recipient
Multiple Local Government Units
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$370,573
Fund Source

Successful long-term treatment of sewage depends on a system capable of providing adequate treatment and effective on-going operation and maintenance. Clean Water Fund Subsurface Sewage Treatment System (SSTS) Program Enhancement and Inventory funds are used by counties to strengthen programs dedicated to SSTS ordinance management and enforcement. These funds are used for a variety of tasks required to successfully implement a local SSTS program including inventories, enforcement, and databases to insure SSTS maintenance reporting programs.

Anoka
Beltrami
Cass
Faribault
Le Sueur
Rice
Todd
Recipient
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$584,196
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$525,369
Fund Source

MPCA will administer funding to eligible Local Governmental Units to use MPCA-approved Advanced Inspectors to conduct work in accordance with Minn. Rules 7080, 7081, and 7083, which requires proper location, design, installation, use and maintenance of an individual subsurface sewage treatment system (SSTS) with a design flow of 2,500 gallons per day or more that protects the public health, safety, general welfare, and the environment by the discharge of adequately treated sewage to the groundwater. Multiple contracts will be awarded.

Statewide
Recipient
Chisago SWCD
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$89,474
Fund Source

This project will implement numerous Best Management Practices (BMPs) to correct erosion concerns occurring adjacent to Kost Dam Trail and County Road 81, two public roads in Chisago County. Both of the sites have been of concern to Chisago County, the Chisago Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD), Sunrise Township, and private landowners for many years. Because of

Chisago
Recipient
Ramsey County
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$60,000
Fund Source

Bald Eagle Otter Lakes Regional Park. Build and support a volunteer corps for Tamarack Nature Center and Discovery Hollow.

Ramsey
Recipient
Anoka County
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$80,000
Fund Source

County-wide, hire landscape architect or designer to work on parks and trails, amenities, and facility projects.

Anoka
Recipient
St. Paul Parks & Recreation
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$69,000
Fund Source

System-wide. Education coordinator to implement environmental ed programs.

Ramsey
Recipient
St. Paul Parks & Recreation
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$65,980
Fund Source

System-wide. Volunteer coordinator to recruit, coordinate, and lead Natural Resource Volunteers .

Ramsey
Recipient
Carver County
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$297,000
Fund Source

Lake Minnewashta Regional Park construct 2.1 miles of trail and bridge on Minnesota River Bluff Regional Trail; includes engineering, parking lot and landscaping.

Carver
Recipient
St. Paul Parks & Recreation
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$60,000
Fund Source

Volunteer Coordinator position to recruit, coordinate, and lead Natural Resource Volunteers in land stewardship and wildlife monitoring projects. A? The person would also lead volunteers in performing responsible natural resource and environmental work.

Ramsey
Recipient
St. Paul Parks & Recreation
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$52,000
Fund Source

Education coordinator position to develop and implement environmental educational programs including general environmental programs and site specific programs including presentations, tours, lectures, field labs, and nature observations at St. Paul regional parks and trails.

Ramsey
Recipient
Staples Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$44,460
To complete restoration on all windows and North and South lobby doors on the Northern Pacific Railroad Depot in Staples, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Todd
Recipient
Hutchinson Concert Association
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,050
Start-Up
McLeod
Meeker
Kandiyohi
Sibley
Renville
Carver
Recipient
MN DNR
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000

Natural springs occur throughout Minnesota and provide critical services for the state, such as creating trout streams and cool water fisheries, sustaining base flows in streams, creating unique ecological habitats, and maintaining the integrity of aquatic ecosystems against invasive species. In order to protect springs and the groundwater-dependent resources that depend on them, though, it is important to understand spring locations and status – information that is currently lacking in many areas of the state.

Statewide
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$60,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$60,000
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$650,000
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$405,000
Fund Source

Provide trail rehabilitation and renewal on state park and forest trails, these are primarily non-motorized trails which due to funding priorities, have not had any significant maintenance for many years. This effort has provided a means to start addressing these trail needs and in doing so working on the most critical first. This has resulted in trail renewal work in 19 state forests and 15 state parks providing for more sustainable trails and better public safety and enjoyment.

Statewide
Recipient
DNR
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$567,000
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$47,000
2007 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000

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