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5437 Results for
Recipient
Little Falls, City of
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
Fund Source

Construct wastewater treatment improvements to meet more stingent discharge requirements

Morrison
Recipient
Koochiching County SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$35,388
Fund Source

Four stream segments, totaling over 100 miles, are impaired in the Little Fork River for Total Suspended Solids (TSS). This study will provide local partners with project options for reducing sediment in the Little Fork Watershed. Through the use of sediment fingerprinting determinations can be made if the sediment is from in (or near) channel, or the watershed and identify what sub-watershed the sediment is coming originating.

Itasca
Koochiching
Recipient
Ducks Unlimited
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,740,000
Fund Source

This Phase 6 request for Ducks Unlimited’s Living Lakes program will enhance 1,000 acres of shallow lakes and restore 50 acres of small wetlands by engineering and installing water control structures for Minnesota DNR and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service on public lands and wetlands under easement. Structures will be used by DNR and Service partners to restore wetland hydrology and actively manage shallow lake water levels to enhance their ecology for ducks, other birds, and hunters in the Prairie Region of Minnesota.

Becker
Big Stone
Cottonwood
Douglas
Freeborn
Grant
Jackson
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Otter Tail
Pope
Redwood
Renville
Sibley
Swift
Watonwan
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Southwest-West Central Service Cooperative
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,500

Local Arts Initiative

Lincoln
Lyon
Redwood
Lac qui Parle
Kandiyohi
Renville
Blue Earth
McLeod
Swift
Pipestone
Yellow Medicine
Traverse
Nobles
Recipient
Southwest-West Central Service Cooperative
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,500

Local Arts Initiative

Swift
Kandiyohi
Meeker
Lac qui Parle
Renville
Lincoln
Lyon
Redwood
Murray
Cottonwood
Nobles
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
City of Afton
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Washington
Recipient
Minnesota Department of Health
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$563,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$563,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$550,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300,000
Fund Source

Appropriations from the Clean Water Fund allow the Minnesota Department of Health to expand and improve the way groundwater and drinking water protection is implemented at the local level. In 2015, $300,000 was allocated to update wellhead protection areas within groundwater management areas. From 2016 onward, funding will be dedicated to the Groundwater Restoration and Protection Strategies (GRAPS) initiative which will provide groundwater and drinking water information and management strategies on a HUC 8 watershed scale.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnehaha Creek WD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$112,000
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to identify watershed and in-lake best management practices (BMPs) to improve water quality for impaired water bodies within the Upper Long Lake Creek subwatershed. The existing P8 watershed model and BATHTUB lake response models will be updated and refined to identify BMPs, develop project costs, and estimate nutrient load reductions. A feasibility report will be developed that outlines prioritized projects, estimated load reductions, and project costs to accelerate implementation.

Hennepin
Recipient
St. Croix Watershed Researh Station
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$74,981
Fund Source

This project is to collect site specific core sampling for the development of total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) for Strand and Long lakes.

St. Louis
Recipient
South St Louis Soil & Water Conservation District
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$146,000
Fund Source

The purpose of this contract is to augment data collection efforts for the St. Louis River (SLR) Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) and for four impaired Duluth beaches. For the SLR WRAPS, activities include: attaining datasets for watershed stressors and geomorphic conditions, water quality gap monitoring, and a civic engagement component. Impaired beaches activities include: collection of field observational data, field water chemistry, and water quality samples for analytical analysis.

St. Louis
Recipient
Carlton County SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$23,758
Fund Source

Beginning in June 2019, the St Louis River Watershed will start the second round of the Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategies (WRAPS) process. This project helps the Carlton County SWCD (SWCD) initiate a broader citizen participation process in the Watershed. The SWCD staff will be enabled to create a greater degree of public interest in and awareness of the general health of the Watershed. This work will create the foundation for greater citizen involvement in the planning and implementation of restoration and protection activities in the Watershed.

Carlton
St. Louis
Recipient
North St. Louis SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$12,457
Fund Source

The project provides the opportunity for the North Saint Louis Soil and Water Conservation District (NSLSWCD) to engage in efforts to increase public participation in the St. Louis River Watershed and participate in the planning and technical review of the Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategies (WRAPS) process. NSLSWCD contains the headwaters of the St. Louis River Watershed. The District’s knowledge of the area, communities, and organizations puts them in a unique position to work cooperatively in the watershed.

Carlton
Itasca
St. Louis
Recipient
DNR
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,777,000
Fund Source

DNR achieved the following outcomes using ML2019 funds.
-Advanced engineering and design of the Perch Lake, Mud Lake, and Lower Knowlton projects.
-Fabricated and installed a 183-foot, 700-ton culvert, restoring fish passage and hydrologic function at Perch Lake.
-Removed 68,000CY of sediment from Perch Lake, restoring coastal marsh and deep water habitat.
-Conducted professional engineering oversight and implemented a portion of the Kingsbury Bay/Creek watershed restoration project contributing to an estimated reduction of 400+ tons of sediment per year.

St. Louis
Recipient
DNR
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,013,000
Fund Source

DNR achieved the following outcomes using ML2018 funds.
-Restored 4 acres of habitat at Interstate Island for threatened bird species, including a 30,000 sqft nesting area.
-Seeded 3,917 lbs of Manoomin with tribal partners across 28 acres.
-Removed 68,000CY of sediment from Perch Lake restoring coastal marsh and deep water habitat.
-Designed and implemented a portion of the Kingsbury Bay/Creek watershed restoration project contributing to an estimated total reduction of over 400 tons of sediment per year.

St. Louis
Recipient
City of Stillwater
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,375
Washington
Recipient
DNR
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,555,000
Fund Source

This proposal seeks to enhance and restore 35 acres of fish and wildlife habitat on the lower Mississippi River in Houston County benefiting bluegill, crappie, bass, deer and Blue-winged and Prothonotary warblers. Sedimentation in Upper Mississippi River (UMR) backwaters and declining UMR floodplain forests are a concern to resource managers, anglers, hunters and recreational users.

Houston
Recipient
Rice Creek WD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$568,104
Fund Source

The Rice Creek Watershed District is proposing to improve water quality and habitat in Locke Lake and Lower Rice Creek by stabilizing stream banks and bluffs on Lower Rice Creek, reducing in-stream erosion and sediment delivery to Locke Lake, and improving in-stream habitat complexity for fish and invertebrates. Eleven bank stabilization practices would be installed over a continuous 5,400-foot reach in Lower Rice Creek. The anticipated outcome of this project is the prevention of 2,874 tons per year of sediment, which is 58% of the sediment reduction goals for Lower Rice Creek.

Anoka
Ramsey
Recipient
Koochiching County SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$132,780
Fund Source

The purpose of this work is to develop a Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) and associated Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) documents for the Lower Rainy River and Rainy River Rainy Lake Watersheds.

Koochiching
Lake of the Woods
Recipient
Lower Sioux Indian Community
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$50,000

The goal of the Dakota History Symposium at Lower Sioux Agency is to reclaim Dakota voice in a narrative that under-represents Dakota perspective and cultural worldview while providing opportunity for exiled Dakota to reconnect to their shared history, disrupting dominant power dynamics that restrict Dakota truth-telling. Hosting a Dakota-led educational event will enhance public understanding, broaden worldviews perspective and increase access to historic truths of the State of Minnesota.

Blue Earth
Brown
Redwood
Renville
Scott
Stearns
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Lower Sioux Immersion

Objective 1: By July 14 2020, increase Dakota language speaking among 20 preschool students age, 3-5 years. Objective 2: Extend Dakota language speaking supports and success through family language training, reaching at least 10 families, or 50% of student families by July 14,2020. Objective 3: By July 14 2020, continue to develop Dakota language resources and materials for learners of all ages, including at least 4 new Dakota language books and 10 short Dakota language videos.

Renville
Recipient
Lower Sioux Indian Community

Objective 1: By July 14, 2020, increase Dakota language speaking among 60 children ages. Objective 2: Introduce and expand Dakota language learning among 45 secondary students by July 2020. Objective 3: By July 14, 2021, promote family and community engagement in the language, reaching at least 100 adults through classes and social media.

Renville
Recipient
Barr Engineering Co
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,498
Fund Source

This project will revise a recently completed draft Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) report for the Lower Minnesota River Watershed Project. The revision is to correct wasteload allocations for regulated stormwater entities.

Carver
Hennepin
Recipient
Wild Rice Watershed District
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,975,000
Fund Source
This Corridor Habitat Restoration Project is a cooperative effort between the District (WRWD), MN Board of Soil and Water Resources (MNBWSR), MN DNR, and Red River Watershed Management Board (RRWMB). This is a voluntary program with the long-term goal to restore a natural corridor area along the Lower Reach of the Wild Rice River. When completed, the project will restore 23 channelized river miles to 50 miles of natural stream channel.
Norman
Recipient
Maggie Lorenz/Wakinyan Luta Oyanke Drum and Dance Society
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000

Guest speakers will provide cultural teachings pertaining to the drum, the songs, the dances, and powwow protocols.

Goodhue
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Minneapolis American Indian Center
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$86,159

The Minneapolis American Indian Center has developed a long-term plan to increase accessibility to and interest in Native languge instruction by increasing access to learning Dakota and Ojibwe languages and increase interest among Native youth and adult community memebers to learn their Native language.

Hennepin
Recipient
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Winona
Recipient
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (Division of Fish and Wildlife)
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
Pine
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,523,464
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,211,340
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,035,420
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,255,197
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,146,426
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,417,177
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,406,456
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,456,863
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,438,933
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$803,121
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$823,500
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$570,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$595,000
Fund Source

Maintaining Existing Holdings - A Parks and Trails Strategic Objective is a program area representing DNR's commitment to one of the four pillars identified in the 25 year Legacy plan. The Legacy plan calls this Take Care of What We Have, and identifies its purpose to provide safe, high-quality park and trail experiences by regular re-investment in park and trail infrastructure, and natural resource management.

Statewide
Recipient
Lyon County Historical Society
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$265,585
Lyon
Recipient
Minnesota Alliance of Local History Museums
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,988
Statewide
Recipient
U of MN - Water Resources Center
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$350,000

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Statewide
Recipient
Mankato, City of
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,118,925
Fund Source

Construct collection system for unsewered area and connect to Mankato treatment facility

Blue Earth
Recipient
U of MN - Duluth NRRI
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000

Establish network of automated radiotelemetry stations to monitor bird migration and local movements of a threatened species, and develop strategic plans for long-term use of infrastructure to monitor animal movement.

Statewide
Recipient
U of MN
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$750,000

We will quantify and map antibiotic and antibiotic resistance gene contamination in Minnesota waters and soils and identify locations in need of mitigation to protect environmental, human, and animal health.

Statewide
Recipient
U of MN
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000

We will map habitat and diseases of urban foxes and coyotes to understand what they need to live and risks posed to people and pets, thereby demystifying them for residents.

Statewide
Recipient
U of MN
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$199,000

Data is needed about which aquatic habitats moose prefer and how moose can potentially enhance nearshore lake foodwebs. This project will map critical aquatic habitats and measure lake foodweb effects.

Statewide
Recipient
Science Museum of Minnesota - St. Croix Research Station
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000

We propose conducting the first statewide analysis mapping the extent of Minnesota’s unprofitable cropland and estimating both the water-quality and habitat benefits of converting these lands to perennial crops/vegetation.

Statewide
Recipient
Carnelian-Marine-St. Croix WD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$97,600
Fund Source
Washington
Recipient
Marshall County
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000
Marshall
Recipient
Marshall Municipal Utilities
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
Fund Source

Construct new water treatment plant to reduce discharge of chlorides

Lyon