All Projects

Seal old city well

Seal well

Verify contaminant source locations; update website

Seal abandoned wells

Seal well 2 (239913)

Potential contaminants database; Management of sites with documented environmental contamination; Public education

Educational exhibit; backflow preventers; spill kit

Phase 2 Whitaker Project: slope protection at Whitaker Pond

Educational groundwater/wellhead exhibit; build barrier to protect wellhead

Payment for farmers re BMP for nitrogen use

Public education; Borehole logging

Promote alternative application rates for nitrogen fertilizer; public education

Training programs for LPRW staff ; data collection devices; update PCSI

Public awareness; install new meter

Inventory of private wells; seal wells; public education

Seal well; public education

Seal well 1

Ed. materials for source owners and public ed.

Signage, test Spring Creek, emergency manual

Well inventory and childrens Water Festival

Geological study to evaluate the source water aquifers in the area of the City of Rogers

Informational signs; support Children's Water Festival; GPS unaccounted wells

Identify and map contaminants; public education

Public education and update well inventory

Public education

Seal well

Establish electronic newsletter to send to local government and general public

PCSI wells/tanks and public ed.

Inventory leaking tanks and public education for tank owners

Cost share well sealing and well locating

Spill response plan and well survey

Well inventory and public ed.

Seal 5 wells within DWSMA

Install a 400 amp transfer switch for the water plant

This project will collect water quality data in the St. Louis River watershed as part of the 10-year Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) cycle for Minnesota waters. South St. Louis Soil and Water Conservation District (SSLSWCD) staff will conduct all monitoring in accordance with Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) Intensive Watershed Monitoring (IWM) standard operating procedures. The SSLSSWCD has extensive experience in stream sampling techniques, including dissolved oxygen, pH, specific conductance, temperature, total suspended solids, nutrients, E.

The purpose of this project is to reduce phosphorus entering South Heron Lake (SHL), which currently does not meet state standards for this water pollutant. Efforts will be focused on Jackson County Judicial Ditch 3 (JD3), which has been petitioned to the HLWD for improvement. JD3 drains 52 percent of the SHL watershed, highlighting its importance in making meaningful progress towards water pollution reduction. The practices include eleven water and sediment control basins and a 10-acre storage and treatment wetland restoration.

This project will permanently protect critical habitat using conservation easements and fee land acquisition on approximately 590 acres and restore and enhance approximately 116 acres of declining habitat for species of greatest conservation need in strategically targeted public land assets of biodiversity significance in the Blufflands resulting in increased public access and improved habitat.

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.

Minnesota's twelve regional library systems, which encompass more than 350 public libraries in all areas of the state, can 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 library system is eligible to receive a formula-driven allocation from the annual $2.5 million Minnesota Regional Library System Legacy Grant. Southeastern Libraries Cooperating (SELCO) is a federated regional public library system with central services located in southeastern Minnesota.

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.