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4601 Results for
Recipient
MInnesota Pollution Control Agency
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$275,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$275,000
Fund Source

This project will evaluate best management performance and effectiveness to support meeting total maximum daily loads; develop standards and incorporate state of the art guidance using minimal impact design standards as the model; and implement a knowledge and technology transfer system across local government, industry, and regulatory sectors.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$162,243
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$171,456
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$154,632
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$394,892
Fund Source

Staffing support to evaluate the performance of existing stormwater infiltration sites, as identified in the Minimal Impact Design Standards (MIDS) project. Monitor the range of existing infiltration devices in Minnesota and compare to design criteria, maintenance records, and quantify year-round infiltration rates. Develop and refine pretreatment options and standards for municipal stormwater treatment.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,105,849
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,173,501
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,309,905
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,028,498
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,481,766
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,866,668
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,513,679
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,289,006
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,231,367
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,583,937
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,503,333
Fund Source

This project supports activities by Minnesota Pollution Control (MPCA) Watershed Division staff that provide technical assistance, project oversight, coordination, outreach and other agency activities associated with assessing, listing and conducting Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) studies throughout the State of Minnesota. Project also includes lab analysis, equipment, and fieldwork expenses associated with TMDL work at the MPCA.

Statewide
Recipient
MInnesota Pollution Control Agency
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$116,236
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$94,490
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$108,040
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$112,600
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$115,114
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$66,913
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$105,199
Fund Source

Staffing and support for the Accelerated Implementation of municipal stormwater (MS4) Permit Requirements program. The purpose of this program is accelerating municipal stormwater (MS4) implementation activities by providing technical assistance and guidance development to permittees. To date the program has establishment of a digital document library (DDL) which is housed in the MN Stormwater Manual.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,351,892
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,528,098
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,477,821
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,529,246
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,483,925
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,284,366
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,956,185
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,413,432
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,971,189
Fund Source

This project supports monitoring and assessment activities by Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) Environmental Outcomes staff and includes lab analysis, equipment, and fieldwork expenses associated with monitoring and assessment activities within the described priority watersheds. Lake Monitoring: Lakes are monitored for nutrients, clarity and other information to provide the data needed to assess the aquatic recreation use support. Biological and Water Chemistry Stream Monitoring: Monitoring to assess the conditions of streams in each watershed.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$53,114
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$80,816
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$182,975
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$386,663
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$262,427
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$215,721
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$288,794
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$279,451
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$372,553
Fund Source

Agencies and stakeholders are working together to clean up contaminated sediments and restore aquatic habitat to the estuary in the St. Louis River Area of Concern within the Great Lakes Basin.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$691,911
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$831,629
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$755,618
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$764,768
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$743,626
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$821,313
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$772,185
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$874,046
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$887,226
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$883,851
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,092,756
Fund Source

Staffing support for the development of permits that provide for implementation of Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) requirements at wastewater facilities and stormwater permittees.

Statewide
Recipient
MInnesota Pollution Control Agency
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$567,922
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$620,426
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$693,557
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$632,044
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$671,209
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$677,851
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$600,617
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$591,495
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$628,687
Fund Source

This project supports monitoring and assessment activities by Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) Environmental Outcomes staff and includes lab analysis, equipment, fieldwork, data management, and interpretation expenses associated with monitoring and assessment activities. The ambient groundwater monitoring network describes the current condition and trends in Minnesota's groundwater quality.

Statewide
Recipient
MInnesota Pollution Control Agency
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$853,501
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,205,491
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$798,114
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$719,141
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$235,001
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$164,683
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,292
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$215,932
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$180,681
Fund Source

Support for the subsurface sewage treatment system (SSTS)  program administered by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA). The MPCA offers grants to counties for SSTS program administration and special projects to improve SSTS compliance rates, and assistance for low-income homeowners with needed SSTS upgrades.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$33,940
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$39,346
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$47,631
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$46,084
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$50,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$41,424
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$53,427
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$68,378
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$285,633
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$298,802
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$342,506
Fund Source

The Clean Water Council was created through the Clean Water Legacy Act (Minn. Stat. Ch 114D) which was signed into law June 2, 2006. The council’s role is to advise on the administration and implementation of the Clean Water Legacy Act. See the Council’s FY18-19 Clean Water Fund and Policy Recommendations Report (December 1, 2016). The 28-member Clean Water Council (Council) represents organizations with a major role in achieving clean water, enabling consensus building and coordination on a wide array of issues critical to the people of Minnesota.

Statewide
Recipient
Leech Lake Area Watershed Foundation
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$950,000
Cass
Crow Wing
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$185,973
A multimedia group has been created to support the development of educational and informational video productions including online curriculum for 6th grade history, the commemoration of the Civil War, WWI, and more.
Statewide
Recipient
Steele County Historical Society
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$60,363

To research and write an exhibit script and programming to preserve and share changes in childhood history in Steele County.

Steele
Recipient
Washington Conservation District
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$50,000
Fund Source

The goal of the MS4 Toolkit project is to provide simple and effective resources to regulated municipal stormwater (MS4) staff to use to help build and implement effective and sustainable Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans (SWPPPs) and when educating municipal staff and the public, including diverse audiences (e.g. non-native English speakers) about the harmful effects of stormwater pollution and prevention techniques. By doing so, MS4 regulated communities will be better able to meet MS4 General Permit requirements.

Statewide
Recipient
Murray County Historical Society
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Murray
Recipient
Lac qui Parle County Historical Society
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,052
To hire a qualified museum lighting professional to develop a museum lighting plan.
Lac qui Parle
Recipient
Emmons & Oliver Resources (EOR)
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,329
Fund Source

This project will address United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) comments on the Preliminary Draft Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) study and Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) comments on the pre-public notice draft Watershed Restoration & Protection Strategy (WRAPS) report, and produce Public Notice Draft TMDL study and Public Notice Draft WRAPS report ready for public review and comment.

Big Stone
Grant
Otter Tail
Stevens
Traverse
Recipient
Science Museum of Minnesota
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$52,536
Fund Source

Myrtle Lake experiences frequent nuisance algae blooms and does not meet Minnesota state standards for total phosphorus and chlorophyll-a. This has led to questions whether the productivity and condition of the lake has changed over time, what the natural or historical condition of the lake was, what the current trajectory of the lake is, and how to set effective management goals.

St. Louis
Recipient
City of Northfield (Northfield Hospital and Clinics)
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To hire a qualified professional to produce a manuscript on the history of the Northfield City Hospital.
Dakota
Goodhue
Rice
Scott
Recipient
Nobles County Historical Society
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To hire a qualified historian to complete an evaluation to determine eligibility for listing in the National Register of Historic Places for the Worthington National Guard Armory.

Nobles
Murray
Rock
Recipient
MN DNR
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,675,000
Statewide
Recipient
MN DNR
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,325,000
Statewide
Recipient
Anoka County
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$140,000
Fund Source

Continue the Conservation Corps of MN contract for work throughout the regional parks & trails system.

Anoka
Recipient
Dakota County
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$161,000
Fund Source

Natural resource management, stewardship, restoration and improvements per master plans.

Dakota
Recipient
Ramsey County
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
Fund Source

Continue contracts with Conservation Corps of Minnesota (CCM) to engage youth of the community in natural resource management projects throughout Ramsey County Regional Parks and Trails. *(In 2013 the Conservation Corp of Minnesota (CCM) worked on over 20 different natural resource projects within the Regional Park and Trails System, totaling over 5,900 hours. Of those total hours, approximately, 1,300 hours were assisting high school youth on natural resource projects and environmental education).

Ramsey
Recipient
Anoka County
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
Fund Source

Natural resource restoration in partnership with MN Conservation Corps throughout Anoka County's regional park and trail units (year 1 of 2)

Anoka
Recipient
Ramsey County
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
Fund Source

Continue contracts with Conservation Corps of Minnesota to engage youth of the community in natural resource management projects throughout Ramsey County Regional Parks and Trails including care of the teaching garden, buckthorn removal, other invasive removals, prairie restoration, streambank stabilization, etc.

Ramsey
Recipient
University of Minnesota: Sponsored Projects Administration
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$56,002
Fund Source

The project goal is to assist the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) with meeting the objectives of the Surface Water Assessment Grant (SWAG) to conduct field and water chemistry monitoring at MPCA specified lake sampling locations and stream locations. This will be accomplished by collecting water samples at seven lake sites and eight streams in the Kettle and Upper St. Croix Watersheds, as well as compiling and submitting the required data, information and reports.

Aitkin
Carlton
Pine
Recipient
Ramsey County
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000
Fund Source

Develop and implement out-reach for nature and outdoor recreation based programming for people of low income and color throughout Ramsey County Regional Parks and Trails. (year 1 of 2)

Ramsey
Recipient
Nawayee Center School
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$116,387

Ojibwe language instruction and integrated curriculum provide a strong cultural base for core academic offerings and support services at Nawayee Center School. Nawayee also offers students opportunities to participate in sweat lodges, naming ceremonies and language tables. These cultural activities, which also attract parents and other adults in the community, complement the school day curriculum.

Hennepin
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$85,068
The Minnesota Historical Society and the Wilder Foundation worked with two new groups of existing and emerging community leaders in 2015 to enhance their ability to act on important community issues. During each six-month program, 245 participants explored neighborhood involvement and developed leadership skills to take effective community action.
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Montevideo Public Library (Chippewa County)
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

To purchase a microfilm reader/printer to make microfilmed records more accessible to the public.

Chippewa
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,309,326
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,392,073
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,429,356
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,480,034
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$206,193
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$124,966
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$22,390
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$942,102
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$794,100
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,406,214
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,502,218
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,500,000
Fund Source

New State Trail development to complete key missing trail segments or to fulfill funding gaps in trail development projects. Potetial development to include multi-use trail, trail parking areas, trail waysides, or trail bridges. New trail development includes all associated engineering, design and construction, and is to incorporate current Best Management Practices.

Statewide
Recipient
Nicollet County
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$84,152
Fund Source

Nicollet County is located in south central Minnesota and is bordered on two sides by the Minnesota River. A line of forested bluffs separate the river valley from land that is relatively flat and historically used for agricultural purposes. Approximately 245,000 acres of the County are actively farmed. The 2012 impaired waters list for water bodies located in Nicollet County include the Minnesota River, Seven Mile Creek, Rogers Creek and tributaries to the Rush River.

Nicollet
Recipient
Niigaane
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000

To immerse students in the Ojibwe Language and Culture and strengthen home/community outreach to revitalize our language and continue our traditions.

Cass
Recipient
Nobles County - Reading
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$11,700
Fund Source

TA grant amendment to further evaluate alternatives to fix failing septic systems in unsewered area

2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,600,000
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,600,000
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,250,000
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,250,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$950,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$950,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,220,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,220,000
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
Fund Source

DNR regional clean water specialists and area hydrologists work with local partners to provide technical assistance on implementation projects and related outreach, resulting in cleaner water through healthier watersheds, shorelands and floodplains. We help partners identify, develop, target, design and/or implement on-the-ground projects that improve water quality, enhance habitat and protect infrastructure. We help design restorations that provide lasting benefits by mimicking features of healthy ecosystems.

Statewide
Recipient
Middle Fork Crow River WD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$642,377
Fund Source
Wright
Recipient
The Nature Conservancy with USFWS
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,428,200
Fund Source

This appropriation allowed the permanent protection of 1,283 acres in western Minnesota, including 583 acres of remnant prairie, 500 acres of other grasslands, 88 acres of wetlands, and more than 8,150' of streamfront. For this phase we had originally planned to protect 1,090 acres, with at least 545 acres of native prairie. We exceeded both goals, protecting 118% of the total acre goal and 107% of the native prairie acre goal. All parcels that were purchased with this funding by TNC have been transferred to the USFWS as part of the Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge.

Big Stone
Chippewa
Clay
Lyon
Murray
Pipestone
Pope
Wilkin
Recipient
The Nature Conservancy
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,683,000
Fund Source

The acquisition work for this phase has been completed. The goal for this phase was the protection of 770 acres in fee and conservation easements. Over the life of the grant we protected 973 acres (126% of the goal): 913 acres in conservation easements and 60 acres in fee title. The goal for native prairie acres for this phase was 385 acres. We protected a total of 772 acres of native prairie acres (201% of the goal).

Brown
Clay
Kandiyohi
Pipestone
Pope
Rock
Yellow Medicine