All Projects

5233 Results for
Recipient
U of MN
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$213,000

The proposed project aims to better understand the impacts that moss and lichens may have on water and pollution.

Statewide
Recipient
U of MN
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300,000

The objective of the present proposal is to assess and provide remedy to the urgent problem of microscopic plastic particles polluting water bodies in Minnesota.

Statewide
Recipient
University of St. Thomas
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$95,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$95,000

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Blue Earth
Le Sueur
Nicollet
Recipient
Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
Fund Source

Complete an updated master plan based on the RiverFirst Initiative, extensive community engagement, and a collaborative process with the City of Minneapolis around the Upper Harbor Terminal

Recipient
Austin Twp - Turtle Creek 1
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
Fund Source

Evaluate alternatives to fix failing septic systems in unsewered area

Mower
Recipient
Austin Twp - Turtle Creek 2
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,250
Fund Source

Evaluate alternatives to fix failing septic systems in unsewered area

Mower
Recipient
Dakota County
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$98,298
Fund Source

Develop and implement an integrated brand awareness and marketing campaign to increase awareness and familiarity of the park system service offerings to Dakota County residents and increase new use throughout the park system. The campaign will use print, digital and other media strategies to inform a broad and diverse audiences with targeted approaches appropriate for those audiences.

Dakota
Recipient
Wadena County Historical Society
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,455
Wadena
Recipient
The Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$107,500
Goodhue
Recipient
Rice Creek WD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$392,000
Fund Source

The Rice Creek Watershed District (RCWD) is proposing to improve the water quality of stormwater runoff to Bald Eagle Lake through installation of a new wet pond and iron-enhanced sand filter (IESF) on Ramsey County Ditch #11. In partnership with White Bear Township, this project will remove approximately 43 pounds of phosphorus from runoff annually and builds upon the extensive work undertaken by the RCWD to improve water quality in Bald Eagle Lake.

Ramsey
Recipient
City of Barnesville
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$121,000
To broaden public access to the Barnesville City Hall, listed in the National Register of Historic Places in continuous use since 1899, through the installation of an elevator and other appropriate modifications that satisfy the Americans with Disability Act
Clay
Recipient
Richfield Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To fabricate and install in the Riley Bartholomew House an exhibit on residential life over time in one suburb.
Hennepin
Recipient
Meeker County Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,910
To fabricate and install a historical marker for the Battle of Acton fought September 3, 1862.
Meeker
Recipient
Ramsey County
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$677,462
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$196,669
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$226,871
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$55,710
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,229
Fund Source

Supplement existing grant SG-11406 for planning, design, engineering, construction, permitting/administrative costs, and contingencies for a new cross country skiing and winter recreation area and supporting facilities, equipment, and infrastructure at Battle Creek Regional Park.

Recipient
Ramsey County
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$78,711
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$148,161
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$55,710
Fund Source

Supplement existing grant SG-11406 for planning, design, engineering, construction, permitting/administrative costs, and contingencies for a new cross country skiing and winter recreation area and supporting facilities, equipment, and infrastructure at Battle Creek Regional Park.

Recipient
Reclaim Community
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Pipestone
Recipient
Beltrami County Agricultural Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,783

To complete the interior display areas of the historically accurate Forestry Ranger Station. Exhibits will feature the early history of forest fire fighting, an account of forestry activity on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, draft horse logging equipment, lumberjack tools, and a tribute to Paul Bunyon. Additionally, funds will be used for a stage where speakers can tell stories and teach about forestry stewardship.

Beltrami
Recipient
Benton County
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$280,000
Fund Source

River overlook(s), parking lot, trail connections, bathrooms, interpretive sign boards, kiosk, signage, pedestrian crossings, benches, picnic tables, trash receptacles.

Benton
Recipient
Freeborn County
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$950,000
Fund Source

to acquire 12.65 miles of abandoned rail line for trail development with connection to existing biking lane and trail head of the Blazing Star State Trail located in Albert Lea

Freeborn
Recipient
Benton County Agricultural Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$22,243

To publish a hard cover book that is the compilation of the history of the Benton County Agricultural Society and Fair from its creation to 2012.

Benton
Recipient
Sleepy Eye Area Foundation
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To acquire professional services in conducting a Phase I archaeological investigation preparatory to further historic preservation work on the Berg Hotel, listed in the National Register of Historic Places
Brown
Recipient
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,200
To hire a qualified professional to prepare a Historic Structures Report for the John Bergquist House, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Clay
Recipient
Wright County
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,528,925
Fund Source

Acquire 124-acre addition to existing 496-acre Bertram Chain of Lakes Regional Park. This property consists of 1,200 acres, including four undeveloped lakes (5.75 miles of lake shore and 1.5 miles of streams), in Wright County.

Wright
Recipient
Bethel University Digital Library
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,800
To digitize The Clarion, the Bethel University's student newspaper, 1983-2007, for increased public access.
Ramsey
Recipient
City of Orono
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,995
Hennepin
Recipient
Aitkin County Soil & Water Conservation District
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,851
Fund Source

This project will complete a Total Maximum Daily Load Implementation Plan for the watersheds of Big Sandy and Minnewawa Lakes. This restoration plan will provide pollution reduction and watershed management strategies that are developed with input from stakeholders in the watersheds.

Aitkin
Carlton
St. Louis
Recipient
Big Stone County Agricultural Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,783

To offer live performances to enhance the education, preservation, and promotion of Minnesota history and cultural heritage. Live performances at Big Stone County Fair will include a Bluegrass Band, a percussion group showcasing music from around the globe, a magician highlighting the history and heritage of magic, a caricature artist, and a vaudeville-style comedy troupe.

Big Stone
Recipient
Carleton College
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Statewide
Rice
Recipient
Tetra Tech
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$109,878
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to develop statewide biological criteria for managing the state’s water resources, in keeping with the federal Clean Water Act. The MPCA is using the Biological Condition Gradient (BCG) for this development. The BCG is a conceptual model that describes changes in aquatic ecosystems on a gradient of increasing anthropogenic stress.

Statewide
Recipient
City of Chaska
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,098
Fund Source

The Birdie Lane East Ravine Improvement project consists of eliminating ravine erosion and treatment of an 8.24-acre watershed to reduce total phosphorus reaching Lake Hazeltine by 98 pounds per year. The eroding ravine will be replaced with a linear treatment feature to provide treatment of a watershed that has land uses that include roads, single-family residential, and a golf course. The project will involve development of a cascade, pool, and riffle channel system.

Carver
Recipient
Council on Black Minnesotans
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000

The Council on Black Minnesotans and the Humanities Center will coordinate a Cultural Relations Summit for Minnesotans of Africans descent. The summit will celebrate culture traditions through instructional demonstrations, guided tours, and visual arts; plan for cultural institutions’ sustainability; and strengthen cultural connections through DNA technology. A web-based cultural portal and a video documentary on the contributions of Minnesotans of African will discover and preserve cultural traditions and enhance relations in Minnesota.

Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Blaine Historical Society
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,733
Anoka
Recipient
Scott Watershed Management Organization
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$381,430
Fund Source

This project will reduce sediment to the Minnesota River, and protect private land and public infrastructure. Blakeley Trail (County Rd 60) in southwest Scott County is surrounded by deep ravines. As these ravines incise, they cause road shoulder landslides, which cut into private property, threaten the road at the head-cuts and generate sediment which creates maintenance and flooding issues downstream. The Scott Watershed Management Organization and the Scott County Highway Department have partnered on this project because of the multiple benefits.

Scott
Recipient
Faribault County SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$267,400
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to facilitate strategic networking, relationships, and learning in targeted groups to assess, build, and leverage community capacity (i.e. community resources and values) to increase knowledge of the Blue Earth River watershed’s water resources and increase best management practice (BMP) adoption to restore and protect water quality in the Blue Earth River watershed. Additional goals include providing information that is readily available to the general public for updates on Watershed Approach work in the Blue Earth River watershed.

Blue Earth
Faribault
Freeborn
Waseca
Recipient
Blue Earth County
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to reduce the number of vulnerable unused wells located within sensitive areas and to prevent potential groundwater contamination. Most Minnesotans rely on groundwater as their primary source of drinking water. Unused and improperly sealed wells can serve as an open conduit to groundwater aquifers, allowing surface water runoff, contaminated water or improperly disposed waste to reach an uncontaminated aquifer. Properly sealing unused and improperly sealed wells is a preventive practice that protects groundwater aquifers from contamination.

Blue Earth
Recipient
Blue Earth County
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,000
Fund Source

The purpose of this project is to expand the County's long standing well sealing efforts by reducing the current inventory of identified well sealing projects.

Blue Earth
Recipient
Olmsted County Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$38,112
To gain intellectual and physical control over a significant historical architectural drawing collection documenting the built environment of Rochester
Olmsted
Recipient
Lower Minnesota River Watershed District
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$220,800
Fund Source

Seminary Fen, a 600-acre complex in Carver County, supports one of only 500 calcareous fens in the world and is one of the highest quality calcareous fens in southern Minnesota. The Fen feeds Assumption Creek; one of the metro area's last known trout streams that supports naturally reproducing native brook trout. Assumption Creek then discharges to the nearby Minnesota River. The Fen's unique hydrology, soils, plants, and habitats are highly sensitive to water quality and sedimentation stress.

Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Scott
Recipient
Waseca County
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$57,000
Fund Source

The purpose of this project is to complete a feasibility study to determine the best sites for projects in the Boot Creek headwaters, in the Le Sueur River watershed, to reduce erosion and pollutant loading. The study will identify critical source areas and provide additional watershed information to assist in prioritizing locations to address local resource management and water quality goals.

Waseca