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Isanti County
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$65,924
Fund Source

Project will focus on BMP's that reduce runoff and/or keep water on the land. The establishment of 8 native plantings on 153 acres using an approved 15 native species mix on marginal farm fields will significantly reduce runoff of sediments and nutrients, and act as a filter to remove nutrients and sediment from fields upslope. Based on RUSLE2 estimates, 336.6 tons/yr of soil will be saved, and 202 lbs/yr of phosphorus and 3,336 lbs/yr of nitrates will not runoff the fields and/or leach into the ground water.

Isanti
Recipient
District 318-American Indian Services
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$23,841

2010 Activities

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Itasca SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$18,016
Fund Source

This contract is for Itasca County Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) to assist in the public participation activities in Rainy Basin Watersheds of Little Fork and Big Fork.

Itasca
Fund Source

Security camera system was replaced at Itasca State Park

Hubbard
Recipient
Jackson Soil and Water Conservation District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,495
Fund Source

Jackson SWCD will collect water chemistry data at three sites; West Fork Little Sioux River, Little Sioux River, and the Loon Lake Outlet. A full suite of lab and field parameters will be collected May - September in 2011 and 2012 at all three sites.

Jackson
Nobles
Recipient
Saint Paul Historic Preservation Commission
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

The St. Paul Historic Preservation Commission hired a qualified consultant to complete the local Historic Preservation Site Designation form for the Jacob Schmidt Brewing Company Historic District. After commission review and a public hearing the proposed historic district was recommended for approval to the St. Paul City Council. The City Council adopted the Jacob Schmidt Brewing Company Historic District as a Heritage Preservation Site along with the Preservation Program. The ordinance was adopted in July, 2011.

Ramsey
Recipient
James J. Hill Reference Library
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$88,000
To repair and replace windows at the James J. Hill Reference Library, listed on the National Register.
Ramsey
Recipient
Regents of the University of Minnesota
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,500

To conduct a conservation survey of 95 works of Francis Lee Jaques housed at three Minnesota museums.

A conservation survey was conducted for the artworks of Francis Lee Jacques from the Bell Museum, the Jacques Art Center and the St. Louis county Historical Society. Nine out of 95 works out were identified and prioritized based on condition. Each of the nine works received a treatment proposal and an estimate for its conservation needs.

Hennepin
Recipient
Sholom Community Alliance
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To document perceptions of identity and legacy through 15 oral history interviews with residents of a Jewish long-term care system in the Twin Cities.  The project focused on capturing quickly disappearing histories from people who grew up in Minnesota’s immigrant communities or came to Minnesota as Russian immigrants or Holocaust survivors.   

Hennepin
Recipient
Lind House Association, Inc.
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Brown
Recipient
Apple Valley, City of
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300,000
Fund Source

The project involves installation of a number of stormwater best management practices in the road right-of-way and on adjacent public property during reconstruction of Johnny Cake Ridge Road and installation of the Dakota County North Creek Greenway. Practices implemented will include boulevard raingardens, tree trenches, and underground sediment collection practices.

Dakota
Recipient
Otter Tail County
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$298,000
Fund Source

Otter Tail County will partner with the Buffalo-Red River Watershed District and the West Otter Tail and Wilkin SWCDs to stabilize the outlet of Judicial Ditch No. 2 which has become the most critically eroding gully contributing sediment to the Otter Tail River. When stabilized, sediment to the river will be reduced by 988 tons per year, and total phosphorus will be reduced by 840 pounds per year. The sediment reduction associated with this project is 7 percent of the 6,868 tons per year goal set by the Lower Otter Tail River Total Maximum Daily Load.

Otter Tail
Wilkin
Recipient
Pennington SWCD
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$93,844
Fund Source

The 14,080 acre watershed of JD#30 and JD#18 drains into the Thief River four miles upstream of Thief River Falls. The City of Thief River Falls draws their drinking water from the reservoir the Thief River supplies. This reservoir is filling with sediment faster than anticipated. It was first estimated that the reservoir would require dredging every 50 years. The last dredging was needed in only 35 years at a price tag of $1.1 million. Treatment of the water for drinking is a major expense to the City.

Pennington
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500

Attend Summer Music Camp.

Kandiyohi
Recipient
Claire Guggemos
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$400

Attend Ballet/Modern Dance Lessons.

McLeod
Recipient
Berett Steffen
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500
Jazz Style Violin Workshop.
Kandiyohi
Recipient
Kasson Alliance for Restoration Inc
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,328
Dodge
Recipient
Lake County Soil and Water Conservation District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$225,000
Fund Source

This project will gather watershed data necessary for the development of a comprehensive watershed management plan with parameter-specific thresholds that will maintain or improve water quality for the Kawishiwi Watershed.

Cook
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Black Dog WMO
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$230,000
Fund Source

In 2010, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency listed Keller Lake as impaired for excess nutrients. An in-lake alum application was identified as the primary phosphorus load reduction option for controlling internal phosphorus load in Keller Lake. A recently completed in-lake management feasibility study report indicates that the in-lake alum application is the most cost-effective implementation project that remains for Keller Lake.

Dakota
Recipient
Wenck Associates, Inc.
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$187,625
Fund Source

The purpose of this work is to develop Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs; a federal clean Water Act requirement) for streams and lakes in the Kettle River and Upper St. Croix watersheds. This and other technical information will be used to develop a separate report called a Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) report.

Aitkin
Carlton
Kanabec
Pine
Recipient
Kitchigami Regional Library
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$106,812
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$106,812

Minnesota's twelve regional public library systems, which encompass 350 public libraries in all areas of the state, 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 public library system receives a formula-driven allocation from the annual $2.5 million Minnesota Regional Library Legacy Grant. Kitchigami Regional Library (KRL) is a consolidated regional public library system in north central Minnesota.

Beltrami
Cass
Hubbard
Wadena
Recipient
Kitchigami Regional Library
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$108,067
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$108,995

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.

Beltrami
Cass
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Wadena
Recipient
Kittson County Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,995

To capture the experiences of several generations of Kittson County war veterans, six individuals with direct combat or combat support experience, were interviewed. The transcriptions of each first-person narrative were printed and are now part of the Kittson County Historical Society  permanent archives. Supplemental materials including photographs and additional information were used to highlight each story and to bring the reader deeper into the stories. A presentation notebook was created and a copy presented to each interviewee.

Kittson
Recipient
Stearns History Museum
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000

In order to update a control system that had surpassed its life-expectancy and to maintain a proper museum environment, the SCHS upgraded the HVAC system control software and front end computer. They were replaced with a new KMC LAN controller and Total Control software. The new system provides improved emvironmental control and energy conservation.

St. Louis
Recipient
St. Cloud State University
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$56,050
To initiate research at five adjacent archaeological sites in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, which will inform an eventual National Register of Historic Places nomination.
Lake
Recipient
Zeitgeist / Lake Superior Steelhead Assoc
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$927,000
Fund Source

We assessed, designed rehabilitation features and permitted 7200 linear feet of river reach in prime spawning areas. We completed construction on over 2200 linear feet of the reach. 

SPECIFIC ITEMS: 

*Installed approx. 400 feet of toewood bench. 

*Graded approx. 500 feet of shoreline to allow river access to floodplain. 

*Installed multiple log rollers/habitat structures. 

*Installed multiple grade control structures. 

*Created new riffles. 

*Rehabilitated the riparian zone in the 2200' stretch using: 

Lake
Recipient
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
Fund Source

Project between Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and United States Army Corp of Engineers at Knowlton Creek Watershed to address a large amount of sediment deposited into the St. Louis River Area of Concern (AOC).

Carlton
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
St. Croix Watershed Research Station
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$213,257
Fund Source

Previous research by the St. Croix Watershed Research Station (SCWRS) has identified lake physics (temperature and oxygen) and nutrient recycling (nitrogen and phosphorus) as key drivers of lake algal blooms. SCWRS will conduct monitoring consistent with the prior research efforts by re-deploying three moored buoys to collect data throughout the 2019 ice-free season, including surface water samples. Additionally, SCWRS will deploy an in situ flourometer to measure total algae and cyanobacteria concentrations and will collect and analyze cyanobacterial toxins.

Lake of the Woods
Roseau
Recipient
Lake County SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$220,000
Fund Source

The purpose of this project is for Lake County Soil and Water Conservation District to continue to assist with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s watershed approach and Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) process in the Rainy River Headwaters and Cloquet River watersheds. As part of this, Lake County Soil and Water Conservation District will lead efforts to increase levels of civic engagement and community participation in support of the current WRAPS process.

Lake
Recipient
Goodhue SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$181,900
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to reduce peak stormwater flow discharge, sediment and phosphorus from directly entering Lake Pepin by installing two stormwater infiltration basins treating a total of 15.8 acres of developed residential and commercial area in Lake City in conjunction with the Highway 61 road reconstruction project scheduled for 2020 reducing total phosphorus by 13 pounds per year and sediment by 2 tons per year.

Goodhue
Recipient
Stearns SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$697,000
Fund Source

A watershed assessment and water quality treatment plan was completed for the impaired Lake George . This project will address the watershed practices portion of the water quality treatment plan. One regional underground stormwater detention/filtration treatment facility treating a 47-acre drainage area will be installed in partnership with the Tech High School Redevelopment Project. The underground facility will target phosphorus reduction reducing an estimated 27 pounds of phosphorus and 7 tons of sediment annually.

Stearns
Recipient
Middle St. Croix River WMO
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
Fund Source

This project proposes to address the largest phosphorus loads discharging from 885 acres to Lake St. Croix through the installation of targeted stormwater treatment best management practices ranked in the top 10 of those prioritized in the 2018 Lake St. Croix Direct Discharge South Stormwater Retrofit Analysis. The goal of this project is to reduce pollutant loading from four small communities to Lake St. Croix by at least ten pounds phosphorous.

Washington
Recipient
Board of Water and Soil Resources
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$600,000

n/a

Statewide
Recipient
Maritime Heritage Minnesota
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,988
Carver
Hennepin
Recipient
Dakota County
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,122,255
Fund Source

The project will increase lake and river access e.g. dock and carry-in portage; provide trails and small gathering space on Echo Point; restore and re-naturalize the park with trees, shrubs and native perennials; improve the layout and/or capacity picnic ground and campground; and other master plan approved improvements. The project includes design, engineering, construction and construction administration.

Dakota
Recipient
Lake Agassiz Regional Library
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$106,777
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$106,777

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. Lake Agassiz Regional Library (LARL) is a consolidated regional public library system in northwestern Minnesota.

Becker
Clay
Clearwater
Mahnomen
Norman
Polk
Wilkin
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
Fund Source

Blacktop resurfacing of park road through Lake Bronson State Park

Kittson
Recipient
LimnoTech
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$11,920
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to finalize the Lake Pepin Watershed phosphorus total maximum daily load (TMDL) report by using the existing information and documentation prepared under previous contracts to prepare one TMDL report that addresses the impairments on the mainstem of the Mississippi River. Information developed to date for draft TMDLs on the Minnesota River mainstem will be documented for later use by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.

Anoka
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chippewa
Cottonwood
Dakota
Goodhue
Hennepin
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
McLeod
Nicollet
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Scott
Sibley
Wabasha
Washington
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Lake Agassiz Regional Library
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$225,542
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$279,619

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.

Becker
Clay
Clearwater
Mahnomen
Norman
Polk
Wilkin