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Greater Litchfield Opera House Association, Inc.
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$208,298
To complete stabilization and rehabilitation of the exterior envelope of the Litchfield Opera House, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, and used as a community space.
Meeker
Recipient
Benton Soil and Water Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$163,639
Fund Source

Little Rock Lake,in Benton County, is negatively impacted for nutrients. Little Rock Lake is a significant regional recreational lake. Toxins released by blue green algae blooms have been the highest ever measured by the Minnesota Department of Health. Given the importance of this resource and the severity of the water quality problems, obtaining tangible water quality improvements is a high priority in the Benton and Morrison County local water management plans.

Benton
Recipient
Benton Soil and Water Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$55,410
Fund Source

The water quality and recretional value of Little Rock is negatively impacted by phosphorus. One important strategy involves reducing the quantity of phosphorus imported to the watershed through animal feeding operations. Farm management strategis coupled with traditional conservation practices will reduce surface runoff and phosphorus transport from feedlots and fields. This project will assist corporate poultry industry and local farmers to put into practice animal feed management strategies that reduce the amount of phosphorus contained in chicken feed rations.

Benton
Recipient
Little Earth of United Tribes
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$60,000

The short term goal of the project is introduce the Ojibwe and Dakota Languages to the residents of Little Earth. Programs will be developed to help feel residents feel welcomed and have a basic understanding of the languages. Learning the language will also bring forth the culture of the American Indian community to the residents of Little Earth.

Recipient
Cottonwood County Historical Society
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,000

The 11th Grade English and Social Studies students of Windom Area High School (WAHS), the Cottonwood County Historical Society (CCHS), and the American Legion (AL) Post #206 developed a project centered on collecting the experiences of living war Veterans by interviewing, writing, publishing in book format, and promoting the stories of Veterans from CC who have served in the military.

Cottonwood
Recipient
Lower Mississippi River WMO
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$196,000
Fund Source

Lake Augusta and Sunfish Lake are deep lakes located in the Lower Mississippi River Watershed Management Organization. Both lakes are approximately 40 acres in size and surrounded by watersheds with moderate to low imperviousness. Both lakes are included on the MPCA's 303(d) list as impaired for aquatic recreation due to excessive nutrients. Lake Augusta and Sunfish Lake were included in a watershed restoration and protection strategies (WRAPS) study and total maximum daily load (TMDL) performed from 2012 to 2014.

Dakota
Recipient
Three Rivers Park District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300,000
Fund Source

Lake Minnetonka LRT Regional Trail. Design and construct a trail bridge over Co Rd 19 in Shorewood. Match to $1 million Federal grant.

Hennepin
Recipient
Three Rivers Park District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$476,000
Fund Source

Luce Line Regional Trail. Design and construct a trail bridge over Co. Rd. 61 in Plymouth. Match to $1 million federal grant

Hennepin
Recipient
Three Rivers Park District
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,769,000
Fund Source

Complete eastern Edina portion of the Nine Mile Creek Regional Trail. Construct approximately 4 mile segment of trail from Tracy Avenue near Edina High School to the intersection of Xerxes and 75th on the Edina/Richfield border. Three Rivers has obtained a federal grant for $6.16 million to help pay for this project. The remainder will be funded through Fiscal Year 2014 and 2015 Legacy grants and local funds.

Hennepin
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$134,753

Partner: Southwest Minnesota State University

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Department of Health
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$563,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$563,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$550,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300,000
Fund Source

Appropriations from the Clean Water Fund allow the Minnesota Department of Health to expand and improve the way groundwater and drinking water protection is implemented at the local level. In 2015, $300,000 was allocated to update wellhead protection areas within groundwater management areas. From 2016 onward, funding will be dedicated to the Groundwater Restoration and Protection Strategies (GRAPS) initiative which will provide groundwater and drinking water information and management strategies on a HUC 8 watershed scale.

Statewide
Recipient
Southwest-West Central Service Cooperative
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,500
Local Arts Initiative
Big Stone
Brown
Chippewa
Cottonwood
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
McLeod
Meeker
Murray
Nobles
Pipestone
Redwood
Renville
Rock
Stearns
Swift
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Freeborn County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,830

To purchase 81 rolls of microfilmed newspapers from bordering communities that include Freeborn County history.

Freeborn
Recipient
Norman County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,130
To rehouse a collection of historic clothing pieces in order to better preserve them.
Norman
Recipient
Douglas Soil and Water Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$78,450
Fund Source

This project will gather watershed data to support the development of a Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy with parameter-specific targets that will maintain or improve water quality for the Long Prairie River Watershed. This project will also provide an important framework for civic and citizen engagement and communication, contributing to long-term public participation in surface water protection and restoration activities throughout the watershed.

Douglas
Morrison
Otter Tail
Todd
Wadena
Recipient
Emmons & Oliver Resources (EOR)
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$23,900
Fund Source

This project is to finalize the Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) and Watershed Restoration & Protection Strategies (WRAPS) for the Red Eye and Long Prairie Watersheds.

Douglas
Morrison
Otter Tail
Todd
Wadena
Recipient
Isanti SWCD
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000
Fund Source

This project will install practices to improve water quality in Long Lake, Isanti Co. We will install at least 350 linear feet of restored lakeshore and 3,000 sq ft of native plant stormwater treatment with an emphasis on bioengineering techniques, native plants and locating buffers/swales/rain gardens at points of concentrated overland flow into the lake. By targeting properties that are eroding and/or with concentrated overland flow to the lake we will reduce suspended solids discharge by 6,300 lbs/yr and phosphorus by 0.6 lbs/yr.

Isanti
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City of Medina
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$334,450
Fund Source

Lake Sarah is a regionally significant lake and currently suffers from excess phosphprus levels. Loretto Creek, located partially within the Cities of Medina and Loretto, is Lake Sarah's east tributary carrying approximately 269 pounds of phosphorus to the lake each year. This is a joint project between the Cities of Loretto and Medina developed for the Loretto ballfields to address this problem.

Hennepin
Recipient
Clearwater Soil and Water Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$32,260
Fund Source

The Lost River requires ongoing protection efforts to reduce harmful runoff entering the watershed. A primary element of this project involves providing project development and technical assistance to a producer who owns approximately 1/3 mile of Lost River frontage. Severe erosion and feedlot conditions compromise water quality in this area. The restoration of this jeopardized area will be accomplished through buffers, streambank restoration and livestock exclusion.

Clearwater
Recipient
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$163,100
Fund Source

This project will provide a protocol for prioritizing sites in the St. Louis Area of Concern (AOC ) for restoration based on site-specific bioavailability considerations. Despite large data collection efforts focused on sediment chemistry, the extent to which sediment with moderate levels of contamination is available for uptake into biota and therefore contributing to Beneficial Use Impairments (BUI)s is still largely unknown.

St. Louis
Lake
Carlton
Recipient
Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To document in 18 oral history interviews the history of the migration of the Minneapolis Jewish community from the city's North Side to St. Louis Park, 1945-1975.
Hennepin
Recipient
St. Louis Park Historical Society
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,997
To add 37 rolls of microfilmed St. Louis Park newspapers to make primary records more accessible to the public.
Hennepin
Recipient
St. Louis County
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
Fund Source

St. Louis County's Comprehensive Water Management Plan Update 2010-2020 identifies providing financial assistance to qualifying homeowners to upgrade or replace failing septic systems as a Priority 2 action. Funds from the FY-16 Clean Water Fund Projects and Practices Grant will be used to provide funding to low-income homeowners to repair or replace SSTS identified as Imminent Threat to Public Health (ITPH) within the following watersheds: Lake Superior South, St.

St. Louis
Recipient
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,289
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,207
Fund Source

USGS will make streamflow discharge measurements at lowflow measuring stations throughout the state. Measurements will be made during lowflow conditions. On average 100 measurements will be made during FY2012. Stream flow measurements will be entered into the USGS database and made available on the USGS Low Flow Data for Minnesota Streams website.

Statewide
Recipient
Sauk River Watershed District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$65,000
Fund Source

This Sauk River Watershed District project will conduct the Whitney Park river clean-up, adopt a river program and other community events as part of their healthy living programs; will collaborate with the city of St. Cloud to install a rain garden demonstration site at Whitney Park; use local radio and public television stations to promote the District’s “neighborhood rain garden initiative” and other incentive programs.

Douglas
Meeker
Morrison
Pope
Stearns
Todd
Recipient
Two Rivers Watershed District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$179,348
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$99,933
Fund Source

This project will include analysis of existing and newly collected water quality data to verify the impairments on the currently listed reaches and to determine the status of the remaining river reaches as being either impaired or currently meeting standards. Stakeholder involvement and public participation will be a focus throughout the Watershed Approach Project. The project provides an opportunity to assess and leverage the capacity for the local community to engage in the process of watershed management and to adopt protection and restoration practices.

Kittson
Marshall
Roseau
Recipient
Barr Engineering-Minneapolis
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$53,994
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to develop draft Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) computations for six impaired lakes and two impaired streams, and to provide TMDL development documentation for selected draft TMDL report sections.

Carver
Hennepin
Recipient
Lower Sioux Indian Community
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$62,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$62,000

Reestablish the Lower Sioux Cultural Resource dedicated solely towards tribal youthby hiring workforce to manage and oversee programming. Increase cultural, language and beliefs into all youth programs - develop and format cultural based youth programming. Strengthen and open dialogue between the youth and elder populations to pass on language and cultural knowlege; build partnership with Lower Sioux Senior Services. Utilize technology to aid in education and awareness; create technological resources geared specifically toward youth language learning.

Renville
Recipient
MN DNR
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$707,000
Fund Source

This funding resulted in permanent protection of three strategically located parcels totaling 125 acres. Funding was used to protect high priority parcels within the Lower Root and Lower Zumbro River floodplains. This was part of a broad partnership working to improve habitat quality and connectivity in critical areas along the Mississippi River corridor. Two of the three parcels acquired are now being managed as State Forests (SFT), while the third parcel is being managed as a Wildlife Management Area (WMA).

Houston
Wabasha
Recipient
Tetra Tech
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$48,995
Fund Source

This project will develop draft Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) studies addressing seven impaired lakes in the Lower Minnesota River Watershed (Fish, Pike, O’Dowd, Thole, Schneider, Titlow and Cleary Lakes). TMDLs will describe the impairment in each lake and water quality targets, and will include a phosphorus source assessment, a lake response model and supporting report components that document assumptions and methodologies, and a TMDL equation with completed load allocations, wasteload allocations, and margin of safety for each impairment.

Scott
Recipient
Legislative Coordinating Commission
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$471,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$471,000
Fund Source

This appropriation is for the administration of the Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council.

Ramsey
Recipient
Legislative Coordinating Commission
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$608,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$607,000
Fund Source

This appropriation is for the administration of the Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council.

Ramsey
Recipient
St Louis County Fair
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,368

To present a three day lumberjack show that will showcase the lumberjack skills of today and yesterday.

St. Louis
Recipient
Cook County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$27,000
Fund Source

to complete improvements and enhancements on snowmobile trails near Lutsen

Cook
Recipient
Mower County Historical Society
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,529

To document in oral history interviews the history of churches and organizations in Lyle, MN.

Mower
Recipient
Cannon Valley Fair
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,368

To better showcase the talent of local artists by enhancing the display areas of the open class and 4-H buildings. Will also create a "Minnesota Made" butterflies exhibit.

Goodhue
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,523,464
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,211,340
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,035,420
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,255,197
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,146,426
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,417,177
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,406,456
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,456,863
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,438,933
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$803,121
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$823,500
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$570,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$595,000
Fund Source

Maintaining Existing Holdings - A Parks and Trails Strategic Objective is a program area representing DNR's commitment to one of the four pillars identified in the 25 year Legacy plan. The Legacy plan calls this Take Care of What We Have, and identifies its purpose to provide safe, high-quality park and trail experiences by regular re-investment in park and trail infrastructure, and natural resource management.

Statewide
Recipient
International Water Institute
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$134,867
Fund Source

This project will support water quality monitoring and data analysis in the Red River Basin. The monitoring will assist in providing water chemistry data needed to calculate annual pollutant loads for the Major Watershed Load Monitoring Program (MWLMP) and provide short term data sets of select parameters to other MPCA programs.

Beltrami
Clearwater
Kittson
Mahnomen
Marshall
Norman
Pennington
Polk
Red Lake
Roseau
Recipient
Maplewood Area Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,745

To conduct research on the comprehensive history of Maplewood from the 1850s to present.

Ramsey
Recipient
Ramsey-Washington Metro Watershed District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$625,000
Fund Source

The Kohlman Lake nutrient reduction study identified a major source of phosphorus loading from the impervious areas like roads, roofs and parking lots within the watershed.. Within this area, one major land use feature stands out - Maplewood Mall. Retrofitting the Mall parking areas to infiltrate at least one inch of stormwater runoff will result in a large reduction in phosphorus to Kohlman Creek and the lake.

Ramsey