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Sherburne SWCD
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$41,903
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,684
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,745
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,791
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$37,903
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,277
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$12,000
Fund Source

The project goal is to conduct water chemistry monitoring at three subwatershed sites in 2016-2019 and ongoing as needed in based on flow conditions, targeting runoff events using protocols defined in the Watershed Pollutant Load Monitoring Network (WPLMN) Standard Operating Procedures and Guidance. The data collected will be submitted to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) and used in the FLUX32 model for calculating pollutant loads.

Sherburne
Wright
Recipient
Aitkin County Soil and Water Conservation District
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
Fund Source

This project will focus on creating a watershed identity, monitoring & assessment, stressor ID assistance, Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) report development, Watershed Restoration & Protection Strategy (WRAPS) report development, watershed prioritization and targeting, and the continuation of the Civic Engagement components of the project. Currently, this watershed has seven listed conventional impairments (Lake Eutrophication); however, it is possible that additional stream impairments (up to four) may be identified during the IWM process.

Aitkin
Recipient
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$13,000
Fund Source

This project will assist in assessing the quality of the Mississippi River bordering with Wisconsin in partnership with the Minnesota DNR (MNDNR), the Wisconsin DNR (WIDNR) and the Metropolitan Council of Environmental Services (MCES). Sampling will be conducted in 2016 using water chemistry and biological indicators, using a 5 state strategy recently developed recently with the leadership of the Upper Mississippi River Basin Association. The Minnesota entities will focus their work on the River from St Anthony Falls to the Chippewa River confluence in Lake Pepin.

Statewide
Recipient
Aitkin County Soil and Water Conservation District
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$44,678
Fund Source
Aitkin
Recipient
Morrison Soil and Water Conservation District
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
Fund Source

Phase 1 of this project is primarily geared towards project planning and coordination among project partners, developing an initial civic engagement strategic plan, holding a watershed kick-off meeting, and gathering and summarizing available water quality data.

Benton
Crow Wing
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Stearns
Todd
Recipient
Aitkin County SWCD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$249,945
Fund Source

Phase 2 of the Mississippi River - Brainerd Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) project will: develop the WRAPS report and the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) study, which allocates pollutant load reductions for impaired waters; implement a civic engagement plan; and develop watershed modeling scenarios to help understand implementation needs in the watershed.

Aitkin
Crow Wing
Morrison
Todd
Recipient
Morrison Soil Water Conservation District
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$225,000
Fund Source

This project will develop a Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) report as well as Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) studies where needed. The TMDLs will provide the quantitative pollutant load reduction estimates and a set of pollutant reduction and watershed management strategies to achieve water quality standards for the impairments within the watershed. Strategies for protecting the unimpaired waters within the watershed will also be included.

Benton
Crow Wing
Morrison
Stearns
Todd
Recipient
Winona County Environmental Services
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$175,891
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$27,500
Fund Source

This project will identify areas for potential Best Management Practice (BMP) placement and identify strategies to strengthen social capacity and effectively engage citizens in development of the upcoming Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) report.

Fillmore
Houston
Mower
Winona
Recipient
Trust for Public Land and MN Land Trust
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,813,500
Fund Source

Through the ML2015 Mississippi Headwaters Habitat Partnership appropriation, we permanently protected 1,923 acres of wildlife habitat in the quickly developing Mississippi Headwaters area. These accomplishments exceed the appropriation goal by 209%. Utilizing both fee-title acquisition and conservation easements, the partnership protected 10 projects, totaling over 11 miles of shoreline along the Mississippi River, its tributaries and nearby lakes.

Aitkin
Beltrami
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Itasca
Wadena
Recipient
Whitewater River Watershed Project
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$32,560
Fund Source

This project proposes utilizing a precision conservation framework to assess two small impaired agricultural watersheds (HUC12) to determine optimal locations of best management practices and structures on the landscape that will address local water quality issues in a more strategic manner. The watershed assessment process will create GIS-generated maps that will be available to local SWCD staff that will inform decision-making for interested landowners.

Olmsted
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Mississippi Headwaters Board; The Trust for Public Land; BWSR
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,396,000
Fund Source
The Mississippi Headwaters Habitat Corridor Project Phase III (ML 17) achieved permanent protection of 1,694 acres of critical fish and wildlife habitat, including 14.5 miles of shoreland on the Mississippi River and adjacent lakes/tributaries. This accomplishment exceeded the appropriation goal by over 200%. Fee-title acquisitions and RIM conservation easements adjacent to public land created or expanded large habitat protection complexes, including a new 232 acre WMA in Crow Wing County.
Aitkin
Crow Wing
Recipient
Three Rivers Park District
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,774,177
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,237,023
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,946,477
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$12,362
Fund Source

This project will focus on significant park improvements throughout the park as identified in the Master Plan.? Improvements will including: Mississippi Gateway Center; Welcome & Event Plaza; Mini Mississippi Play & Education Feature; Nature?s Highline Trail & Tree House;? Picnicking; Nature Interpretation Nodes; Nature Play Areas; Site Work, Parking & Bathrooms; Natural Resource Restoration;? ADA River Access & Outdoor Classroom; Drop-off, Temporary Parking & Non-motorized Boat Launch; Fishing Improvements;?

Hennepin
Recipient
Wenck Associates, Inc.
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$39,912
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to develop Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) allocations and complete a final draft TMDL report for the 29 stream impairments listed in the Missouri River Basin. The project will produce completed models and pollutant source assessments for each impairment parameter, and a draft TMDL report that summarizes results of these analyses and TMDL allocations for each stream.

Jackson
Nobles
Recipient
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$60,000

To further the affiliation between Mitchell Hamline and Hamline University with a partnership for the initial development of the MHSL History Center and meaningful public programming.

Ramsey
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$27,050
The MNHS Indian Advisory Committee (IAC) is made up of tribally appointed representatives of the 11 Minnesota tribes, as well as representatives of key groups, such as educators. IAC advises on planning, developing, and evaluating MNHS activities and initiatives including exhibitions, publications, public programs, and curatorial policy as they relate to the research, collection, preservation, and interpretation of Minnesota and American Indian history in Minnesota.
Statewide
Recipient
Cass County Historical Society
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,500

To create Cass County entries for the MNopedia project for online research.

Cass
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$181,590
MNopedia is an award-winning online encyclopedia of Minnesota created by MNHS, designed for use by a general audience, teachers, and students. In 2015, the MNopedia library grew to include essays on Hmong, African American, and Jewish history, and articles on topics as diverse as Minnesota in World War I, immigration to the Iron Range, Dayton's department store, and the Grange in Minnesota. A new feature, This Day in Minnesota History, a Minnesota book of days, was added.
Statewide
Recipient
Aqua Lux Lucis, Inc.
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Fund Source

Using data supplied by Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA), this project will model the relationship between sulfate and sulfide in wild rice habitats.

Statewide
Recipient
Eastside Neighborhood Development Company
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$66,763
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$31,711

Support a new project that will aid in the development of a Montessori Language Proficiency Assessment for D/Lakota and Ojibwe languages for children 3-5 years.

Ramsey
Recipient
Monticello, City of
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,165,043
Fund Source

Construct wastewater treatment improvements to meet more stingent discharge requirements

Wright
Recipient
Comfort Lake-Forest Lake WD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
Fund Source
Chisago
Recipient
Comfort Lake-Forest Lake WD
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$429,284
Fund Source

Moody Lake is the headwaters of the Comfort Lake-Forest Lake Watershed District northern flow network, and as such, its water quality sets the stage for downstream waters, particularly Bone Lake, Comfort Lake, the Sunrise River, and ultimately Lake St. Croix. A multi-year diagnostic and implementation feasibility study was conducted in the Moody Lake watershed to prioritize nutrient sources, target cost-effective BMPs, and estimate the measurable phosphorus reductions that will be achieved through implementation of these projects.

Chisago
Washington
Recipient
U of MN
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$348,000
Statewide
Recipient
Moose Lake, City of
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$446,914
Fund Source

Construct wastewater treatment improvements to meet more stingent discharge requirements

Carlton
Recipient
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,296
Clay
Recipient
Morris, City of
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,264,963
Fund Source

Construct new water treatment plant to reduce discharge of chlorides

Stevens
Recipient
MN DNR
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
Beltrami
Kittson
Marshall
Roseau
Recipient
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$784,501
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,215,690
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$333,620
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$242,494
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$55,500
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$83,227
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$27,560
Fund Source

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) uses a watershed-oriented approach to assess surface water quality and define restoration and protection measures. Each of Minnesota's 81 major watersheds is assessed intensively every 10 years, based on a staggered schedule that addresses, on average, eight watersheds per year.  To increase the amount of data directly available to the public online, and to make internal operations more efficient, the MPCA started a multi-year Watershed Data Integration Project (WDIP).

Statewide