All Projects

5233 Results for
Recipient
Lake of the Woods Soil and Water Conservation District
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,303
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$28,950
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,213
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,726
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$19,662
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$77,033
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$63,402
Fund Source

This project is to conduct water chemistry monitoring at two subwatershed sites and two major watershed sites 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 Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) and used for calculating pollutant loads. This loading information, in turn, will be used at both the state and local level to guide policy and strategies for the restoration and protection of Minnesota’s waters.

Lake of the Woods
Recipient
University of Minnesota-Natural Resources Research Institute (NRRI)
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$72,461
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,340
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$35,744
Fund Source

This project will determine pre- and post-settlement nutrient trends from sediment chronology, fossil diatom assemblages, and from sediment profiles representing human history in the region (i.e., at least 150 years). Project activities include sample collection; sample preparation; diatom analysis; database creation and management; and data interpretation. Sample cores will be taken on the Lake of the Woods in five major bays (i.e., Four-mile, Muskeg, Sabaskong, Little Traverse, and Big Traverse) in the southern basin.

Lake of the Woods
Roseau
Recipient
Riley-Purgatory-Bluff Creek WD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$55,000
Fund Source

The Riley-Purgatory-Bluff-Creek Watershed District and the City of Eden Prairie are working together to implement projects to remove Lake Riley and Rice Marsh Lake from the impaired waters list. One key emerging issue is to evaluate potential internal phosphorous loading within stormwater ponds in the lakes? subwatersheds. This project will also use updated pond data from the city?s intensive pond inspection program to identify other phosphorus reduction opportunities. The proposed assessment will quantify formerly undocumented P loading to Rice Marsh Lake and Lake Riley.

Carver
Hennepin
Recipient
Lake of the Woods Soil and Water Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$237,180
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,993
Fund Source

This project will gather watershed data necessary for the development of a Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy to maintain or improve water quality within the LoW Watershed; and establish project and sub-basin work groups and/or focus groups to guide the MWRPP process.

Lake of the Woods
Roseau
Recipient
Lake of the Woods SWCD
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$305,620
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$66,412
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$47,202
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$34,422
Fund Source

The Lake of the Woods (LOW) Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) study will: (1) identify water quality goals for the Minnesota portions of the LOW/Rainy River Watershed; (2) recommend nutrient allocations to achieve TMDLs where waters do not meet standards; and (3) provide opportunities for stakeholders to engage in the process of watershed-management planning to adopt protection and restoration strategies. The project will include existing in-lake and watershed model updates, TMDL component development, restoration plan development, and public participation.

Lake of the Woods
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,450,000
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,450,000
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000,000
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,250,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,250,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,250,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,250,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,300,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,300,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,300,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,300,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,150,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,150,000
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,178,000
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
Fund Source

The biological communities present in a lake are the result of cumulative effects of natural and human-caused influences within the entire area of land and water that flows into the lake (i.e., the watershed). Biological assessments are used on lakes to identify water pollution and habitat concerns based on the type and abundance of selected animals and their habitats. Certain species cannot survive without clean water and healthy habitat while other species are tolerant of degraded conditions.

Statewide
Recipient
Anoka County
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$539,000
Fund Source

This proposal will address two separate problems: the eminent failure of the Lake George dam and two severe erosion sites on the Rum River at Rum River Central Regional Park. We propose to replace the current failing sheet pile dam with a new dam that allows for fish passage on the outlet of Lake George. We also propose to repair two river bank erosion sites rated as 'Severe' totaling approximately 625 feet on the Rum River which will reduce sediment loading into the river by 285 tons per year and will provide improved in stream fish habitat.

Anoka
Recipient
St. Croix River Association
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
Fund Source

The purpose of this project is to gain additional information about the amount of phosphorous flowing into Lake St Croix by implementing additional water quality monitoring and/or to reduce the amount of phosphorous entering Lake St Croix by the implementation of projects that will reduce phosphorus loadings. The St. Croix River Association (SCRA) will coordinate with a subgroup of the St. Croix Basin Water Resources Planning Team and other local resource experts on the identification and funding of comprehensive water monitoring and phosphorus reduction activities in the Lake St.

Aitkin
Carlton
Chisago
Kanabec
Mille Lacs
Pine
Washington
Recipient
Ramsey Conservation District
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$57,420
Fund Source

Lambert Creek is wholly within the Vadnais Lake Area Water Management Organization (VLAWMO) and is located in northeastern Ramsey County. Lambert Creek is surrounded by mainly residential land use and flows through three communities before discharging into East Vadnais Lake, which is the final impoundment reservoir containing the water supply that the Saint Paul Regional Water Services (SPRWS) treats and then distributes to thirteen municipalities including the city of St. Paul.

Ramsey
Recipient
University of Minnesota
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
Fund Source

With a perceived increase in the frequency and intensity of cyanobacterial algal blooms in Lake of the Woods (LOW), there has been an increased effort to collect information about the nature of algal blooms, nutrient concentrations and sources of nutrients to the LOW.

Lake of the Woods
Roseau
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$306,675
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$391,567
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$356,477
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$343,762
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$290,398
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$399,148
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$333,128
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$508,851
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$214,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$650,915
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$729,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$311,829
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$311,829
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$546,000
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$654,000
Fund Source

This program is to restore acres of state parks and trails land to native plant communities. MS 86A.05 directs PAT to preserve, perpetuate and restore natural features in state parks that were present in the area of the park at the time of European settlement. Approximately 31 restoration projects have been completed, are in progress, or will be implemented in the spring of 2012, at over 20 state park units. These projects total 1,283 acres.

Recipient
Lansing Twp
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$277,543
Fund Source

Construct collection system and connection to existing facility for unsewered area

Mower
Recipient
Washington Conservation District
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$123,930
Fund Source

The Washington Conservation District (WCD) proposes a program to reduce overall phosphorus contributions to Lake St. Croix impaired for excess nutrients by converting maintained turf grass areas to native plant cover. Initial water quality benefit modeling results reveals up to a 99% reduction in total phosphorus runoff when converting an acre of turfgrass to an established native planting. Priority will be given to locations directly connected to Lake St. Croix or to receiving water bodies impaired that are a tributary of Lake St. Croix.

Washington
Recipient
Capitol Region WD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
Fund Source

Capitol Region Watershed District and the City of Lauderdale seek to improve water quality and flood control functions of Seminary Pond in Lauderdale. The project partners propose improvements to the pond including: 1) expansion of the pond?s storage area and 2) construction of an iron-enhanced sand filter. These improvements were identified as being the most cost-effective and will remove an estimated additional 2 tons of sediment and 9 pounds of phosphorus annually.

Ramsey
Recipient
Learning Law and Democracy Foundation
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$55,575
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$73,125

Learning Law and Democracy: Principles of Democracy – Connecting civic education to principles that guided the nation's founders and continue to be our foundation today is the goal of LLAD's "Principles of Democracy" project for Minnesota's young people. By focusing on the why, how, and who of our system of government, K-12 students in and out of the classroom will be prepared to carry on Minnesota's civic tradition of informed civic participation. They will learn about the Constitution, structures of government, politics and active citizenship.

Statewide
Recipient
Dakota County
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$267,000
Fund Source

Dakota County is partnering with the Dakota Soil and Water Conservation District to preserve and enhance the chain of shallow lakes in Lebanon Hills Regional Park which is owned and operated by Dakota County and located within the City of Eagan. Dakota County proposes to construct two regional iron-enhanced sand filtration practices to achieve the load reduction goals set forth in the LHRP Subwatershed Assessment Report to protect Jensen and Schulze lakes and prevent them from being listed on the 303(d) Impaired Waters List. The project will reduce 26 pound of phosphorus annually.

Dakota
Recipient
Peace Lutheran Church
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,730
To hire a qualified historian to evaluate the Lebanon Church for possible inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places
Kandiyohi
Recipient
Cass County (Environmental Services Department)
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$70,000
Fund Source

This project supports the planning, coordination and civic engagement/outreach components of the Leech Lake River Major Watershed project. Phase 1 will focus towards the development of project teams, identifying stakeholders, developing an initial civic engagement strategic plan and reviewing current and past watershed project data. Phase II of this project will focus on source assessment, running of watershed modeling scenarios, lake protection planning, stressor identification and the continuation of the Civic Engagement components of the project.

Beltrami
Cass
Hubbard
Recipient
Niigaane
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000

The Niigaane program focus is on Ojibwemowin curriculum development and delivery. Ojibwemowin is the vehicle used to educate our students in kindergarten through sixth grade. We rely on our First Language Elder Speakers to help facilitate and guide our teachers and students in Ojibwe language acquisition. Ojibwe cultural activities are integrated within the academic lessons. Ojibwemowin classes and family centered activities are hosted by Niigaane staff to promote language preservation and acquisition efforts for all family and community members.

Cass
Recipient
Science Museum of Minnesota
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$175,599
Lincoln
Ramsey
Recipient
Nicole D. Erickson AKA Nikki Bettcher Erickson
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,925

The Traveling Museum

Cass
Chippewa
Kandiyohi
McLeod
Stearns
Recipient
Andrew Nordin AKA Andrew and Lisa Nordin
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

The Traveling Museum

Big Stone
Hennepin
Kandiyohi
Lincoln
Otter Tail
Stearns
Stevens
Recipient
Pope County Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,500
Legacy Arts and Cultural Heritage
Pope
Douglas
Grant
Stevens
Recipient
City of Ashby
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Legacy Arts and Cultural Heritage
Grant
Recipient
City of Battle Lake
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Legacy Arts and Cultural Heritage
Otter Tail
Recipient
Central Square, Inc. AKA Central Square Cultural and Civic Center
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,500

Legacy Arts and Cultural Heritage

Douglas
Pope
Stevens
Recipient
DEBWE Youth Organization
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,590
Legacy Arts and Cultural Heritage
Becker
Otter Tail
Clay
Recipient
DLCCC, Inc. AKA Historic Holmes Theatre
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$16,736
Legacy Arts and Cultural Heritage
Becker
Otter Tail
Clay
Recipient
DLCCC, Inc. AKA Historic Holmes Theatre
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,400
Concerts Series 2013-14
Becker
Otter Tail
Clay
Recipient
Fergus Falls Center for the Arts, Inc. AKA A Center for the Arts
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$21,820
Concert Series 2013-14
Otter Tail
Grant
Wilkin
Becker
Recipient
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County AKA HCS
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,630
German Culture Day
Clay
Wilkin
Becker
Otter Tail
Recipient
Kennedy Secondary School
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,990
Copper Street Brass Quintet Residency
Otter Tail
Recipient
Suzanne M. Legatt
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,726
Legacy Arts and Cultural Heritage
Otter Tail
Pope
Clay
Recipient
David Messenger
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000
Legacy Arts and Cultural Heritage
Otter Tail
Becker
Grant
Recipient
Minnesota State Community and Tech Clg-Fergus Falls
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$17,500

The Sketchbook Project

Clay
Otter Tail
Stevens
Recipient
Minnesota State University-Moorhead
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,550
College for Kids
Clay
Becker
Wilkin
Recipient
Moorhead High School
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,394
Legacy Arts and Cultural Heritage
Clay
Recipient
New York Mills Arts Retreat AKA New York Mills Regional Cultural Center
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,250
Legacy Arts and Cultural Heritage
Otter Tail
Douglas
Recipient
Nordic Culture Clubs
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000
36th Annual Scandinavian Hjemkomst Festival
Clay
Becker
Otter Tail
Wilkin
Recipient
Pelican Rapids Public Schools
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,420
Legacy Arts and Cultural Heritage
Otter Tail
Becker
Clay