All Projects

5270 Results for
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
Minnesota Historical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$196,687
Legacy funds support 2.5 full-time multimedia positions, along with materials and services to produce video, audio and other multimedia content for education, interpretive and exhibit programs across MNHS. This content is also used to inform the public about these MNHS programs.
Statewide
Recipient
Greater Blue Earth River Basin Alliance
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$301,200
Fund Source

The Greater Blue Earth River Basin Alliance (GBERBA) along with Soil and Water Conservation Districts, Counties, landowners, and drainage authorities in the ten member counties will install conservation drainage practices to improve water quality. 103E drainage systems with documented sediment or water quality issues are the focus with the goal of installing 52 practices such as improved side inlets (grade stabilization structures), alternative tile inlets, denitrifying bioreactors, saturated buffers, storage wetlands and others.

Blue Earth
Brown
Cottonwood
Faribault
Freeborn
Jackson
Le Sueur
Martin
Waseca
Watonwan
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
Minnesota Erosion Control Association
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,405
Fund Source

Minnesota Erosion Control Association (MECA) will offer three one-day training session intended to educate permittees on the requirements of the Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) permit. The focus of these workshops will be on conducting inspections and various hot topics.

Blue Earth
Kandiyohi
Wright
Recipient
Murray County Historical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,705

To create five Murray County entries for the MNopedia project for online research.

Murray
Recipient
Murray County Historical Society
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Murray
Recipient
Lac qui Parle County Historical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$72,225

To hire qualified technicians to upgrade Lac qui Parle County Historical Society's lighting system.

Lac qui Parle
Recipient
Balaton Area Historical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,458

To hire a qualified museum lighting professional to develop a museum lighting plan.

Lyon
Murray
Recipient
Minnesota Lakes Maritime Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$59,975

To hire qualified technicians to upgrade Minnesota Lakes Maritime Society's lighting system.

Douglas
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
Nobles County Historical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000

To hire a qualified historian to complete the nomination to the National Register of Historic Places for the National Guard Armory in Worthington.

Nobles
Recipient
North Hennepin Pioneer Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,500

To hire qualified consultants to evaluate the Burschville School, Corcoran MN, for possible inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places.

Hennepin
Recipient
Regents of the University of Minnesota (Department of Anthropology)
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,233

To hire a qualified archaeologist to conduct a survey of Dakota and Ojibwe sites in Wadena.

Wadena
Recipient
MN DNR
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,675,000
Statewide
Recipient
MN DNR
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$600,000
Anoka
Becker
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chippewa
Chisago
Clearwater
Cottonwood
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Houston
Isanti
Jackson
Kittson
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Mahnomen
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Mower
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pennington
Polk
Pope
Ramsey
Red Lake
Renville
Rice
Rock
Roseau
Sherburne
Sibley
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Wilkin
Winona
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Lyon County Historical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,244

To document in 10 oral history interviews the histories of two major natural disasters in Lyon County.

Lyon
Recipient
Anoka County
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$145,000
Fund Source

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

Anoka
Recipient
Dakota County
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$218,000
Fund Source

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

Dakota
Recipient
Ramsey County
2017 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
Ramsey County
2017 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 2 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
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$85,081
MNHS and the Wilder Foundation worked together to provide greater access and awareness of MNHS resources to St. Paul neighborhoods through the Wilder Foundation's Neighborhood Leadership Program (NLP). NLP is a six-month training program that has been supported by the Wilder Foundation for the past 20 years with nearly 800 program alumni. The purpose of NLP is to help existing and emerging leaders take action to improve their community. This year 29 people were accepted to the NLP program. Through visits to the Minnesota History Center, participants learned about the diverse history of St.
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
Recipient
Pioneer Public Television
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300,000
Statewide
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
North Chisago Historical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,350

To add 78 rolls of microfilmed newspapers to make primary records more accessible to the public.

Chisago
Recipient
North Fork Crow River WD
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$48,500
Fund Source

The District is seeking to further its goals of meeting multipurpose drainage management requirements under its obligations as a 103E drainage authority. Judicial Ditch 1 is the largest system in the District, and proportionally one of the largest contributors of sediment and nutrients to the downstream reaches of the North Fork Crow River.

Pope
Stearns
Recipient
North Fork Crow River WD
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$50,000
Fund Source

There is one lake and three streams in the North Fork Crow River Watershed District impaired by excess nutrients and impaired biotic communities. The Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategies have identified large areas and subwatersheds that have the potential to contribute high pollutant loads to the streams and lakes throughout the watershed. This Subwatershed Assessment study will evaluate three high loading subwatershed catchments in the North Fork Crow River Watershed.

Stearns
Recipient
Niigaane
2017 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.