All Projects

4048 Results for
Recipient
Metropolitan Council
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$750,000
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$625,000
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$625,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$375,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$375,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
Fund Source

The Metropolitan Council was awarded $1,500,000 from Minnesota Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment funds for a Water Efficiency Grant Program during the Minnesota Legislature's 2023 Session. The Metropolitan Council (Council) implemented a water efficiency grant program effective July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2026. Grants were awarded on a competitive basis to municipalities that are served by a municipal water system. The Council provides 80% of the program cost; the municipality must provide the remaining 20%.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Stearns SWCD
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$149,704
Fund Source

In 2009, residents from the Stradford Addition and the Avon Area Lakes Association (AALA) contacted the Stearns County SWCD with concerns of direct stormwater entering Middle Spunk Lake. The Stearns County SWCD met with representatives on site to assess the stormwater problems. Many areas of untreated stormwater that directly discharged into Middle Spunk Lake were identified. It was determined that the watershed areas within the Stradford addition should be retrofitted with best management practices capable of conveying and treating stormwater.

Stearns
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$165,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$170,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$165,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$176,762
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$202,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$202,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$185,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$185,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$230,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$230,000
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$95,000
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$85,000
Fund Source

The DNR provides technical support related to the causes of altered hydrology and watershed management solutions. We use state-of-the-art models and statistical methods to look at cumulative impacts of drainage and land-use practices and determine the benefits of best management practices. This involves collaboration with multiple partners at multiple scales.

Statewide
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,650,000
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,650,000
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,435,000
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,440,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,475,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,478,815
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,549,694
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,567,393
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,638,038
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,624,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,591,245
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,750,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,630,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,630,000
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,182,500
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$689,000
Fund Source

DNR regional clean water specialists and area hydrologists work with regional staff from other state agencies and with local partners to help identify the causes of pollution problems and determine the best strategies for fixing them. We collect and analyze stream channel stability and streambank erosion data to help identify root causes of certain water quality impairments in streams.

Statewide
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$465,000
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$460,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$425,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$421,185
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$336,306
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$318,607
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$301,962
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$316,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$258,755
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$118,000
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,500
Fund Source

The Watershed Health Assessment Framework (WHAF) is a web-based tool for resource managers and others interested in the ecological health of Minnesota's watersheds. The framework uses five ecological components to organize and deliver information about watershed health conditions in Minnesota. The five components are hydrology, connectivity, biology, geomorphology, and water quality. Statewide GIS data from DNR and partner agencies are used to calculate health scores that reveal similarities and differences between watersheds.

Statewide
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$350,000
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$350,000
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$280,000
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$285,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$285,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$280,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$260,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$248,238
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$223,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$223,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$190,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$190,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$235,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$235,000
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$190,000
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$180,000
Fund Source

This project delineates and maps watersheds (drainage areas) of lakes, rivers, streams, and wetlands for the state of Minnesota and provides watershed maps in digital form for use in geographic information systems. These maps become the basis for clean water planning and implementation efforts.

Statewide
Recipient
Waterville, City of
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,848,723
Fund Source

Construct wastewater treatment improvements to meet more stingent discharge requirements

Le Sueur
Recipient
Greater Blue Earth River Basin Alliance
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$52,280
Fund Source

With the completion of LiDAR data in southern Minnesota, it is imperative to use this data as effectively as possible. In order to do so, the Greater Blue Earth River Basin Alliance (GBERBA) will contract with a vendor to complete a Geographic Information System (GIS) terrain analysis in subsheds of the Watonwan River watershed. This inventory will utilize the State of Minnesota LiDAR elevation datasets to create many GIS datasets by spatially analyzing the elevation data.

Brown
Cottonwood
Jackson
Martin
Watonwan
Recipient
City Of Saint Paul
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$21,000
Fund Source

to install a PV lighting system, PV panels, battery, and timing system for four St. Paul Grand Round Trail Kiosks

Ramsey
Recipient
Winona County Historical Society
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,953

Improved the safety and the environment for historical artifacts by separating an exhibit fabrication area.

An old coal room was retrofitted with a compatible reuse where the intake has been reversed to exhale. This special facility will enable the Winona County Historical Society to be more intentional and responsive with its exhibits, which before the addition were fairly static. Their stated intention in the final report is to have exhibits that change more often and therefore prompt the Society’s building to be used a more frequent gathering space.

Winona
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$296,250
MNHS continues to focus on broadening access to many of its Legacy-funded programs through the Internet. This funding supports the web development professionals who plan, build, and implement digital components that are part of many Legacy-funded history projects and helps pay for Web hosting to make these projects accessible to people in Minnesota and beyond. MNHS also uses the web to report on its use of Legacy funds at legacy.mnhs.org and for the public to apply for Legacy grant funds at legacy.mnhs.org/grants.
Statewide
Recipient
The Bakken Museum
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To fabricate and install an exhibit that provides access to its museum hosed in the 1929 William E. Goodfellow mansion
Hennepin
Recipient
Western Lake Superior Sanitary District
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,540

Fourteen oral history interviews were conducted with people knowledgeable about the establishment of the Western Lake Superior Sanitary District (WLSSD), early conditions and relevant local environmental issues of the early 1970’s.

St. Louis
Recipient
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To develop and install an exhibit on the history of alcohol in Clay County.
Clay
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$210,351
What's Up, Doc? The Animation Art of Chuck Jones is a new traveling exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution that reveals the creative genius behind some of the most enduringly popular cartoons and animated films of all time. Chuck Jones brought to animation an unparalleled talent for comic invention and a flair for creating animated characters with distinctive and often wildly eccentric personalities.
Statewide
Recipient
Wilkin Soil and Water Conservation District
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$256,410
Fund Source

The Whiskey Creek project involves a coordinated and comprehensive approach to watershed management. This project consists of installing conservation practices that reduce sediment loading to Whiskey Creek while also providing flood reduction benefits to downstream landowners.

Wilkin
Recipient
Wilkin County
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$103,100
Fund Source

The Whiskey Creek Watershed is the largest subwatershed in the Upper Red River of the North drainage, encompassing 165.63 square miles in Otter Tail and Wilkin Counties. This watershed contains the headwaters of the Red River of the North, which begins in far west central Wilkin County, an area of mixed residential and agricultural land use. The cities of Breckenridge, Minnesota and Wahpeton, North Dakota, as well as the small town of Kent are within the watershed.

Wilkin
Recipient
White Earth Reservation
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$48,160
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$48,000
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$68,750
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$78,623

2010 Grant Activities
Recording of 1st speakers. Webmaster hired to maintain language website. Conduct two half day gatherings for 1st Generation speakers.

Recipient
Regents of the University of MN - Labor Education Svc
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000

To assemble historical resources pertaining to the laborers who built the Minnesota State Capitol.

Hennepin
Recipient
Wicoie Nandagikendan Early Childhood Urban Immersion Project
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000

Wicoie Nandagikendan Early Childhood Urban Immersion Project provides a 3-hour-a-day preschool language immersion experience. It builds on the integral connections between culture, literacy, and educational attainment. The project partners with existing programs to provide fluent speakers and language curriculum.

Recipient
BWSR
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,511,100
Fund Source

12 easements have been recorded on 1,127.0 acres.

The Bird’s Eye Lake AMA acquisition has been completed. A portion of the land cost had come from this
appropriation, the 2016 Aquatic Habitat OHF appropriation, and by gifts matched with RIM Critical Habitat. This
tract consists of 52 acres, of which 5 acres are being reported on under this appropriation, as to not double count
acreage.

Aitkin
Becker
Itasca
Todd
Recipient
Wild Rice Watershed District
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,270,000
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
Fund Source

Rehabilitation of State Trail Bridge over 93rd Avenue in the City of Duluth.

St. Louis
Fund Source

Rehabilitation of State Trail Bridge over Grand Avenue / TH 23 in the City of Duluth.

St. Louis
Fund Source

This project entailed reconstruction and resurfacing of 1.1 miles of the segment of the Willard Munger State Trail that spans the trail terminus to Grand Avenue in Duluth.

St. Louis
Recipient
Willmar, City of
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,692,935
Fund Source

Construct wastewater treatment improvements to meet TMDL wasteload requirement

Kandiyohi
Recipient
City of Winona
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000
To hire a qualified consultant to research the history of the Winona Historic Preservation Commission, in preparation for an expanded HPC website.
Winona
Recipient
City of Duluth
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300,000
St. Louis
Recipient
VocalEssence
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$19,770

In 2016, VocalEssence WITNESS welcomes artist Melanie DeMore to help us explore the Underground Railroad in Minnesota—specifically how our state has been a place of sanctuary for refugees from the time of slavery through today. As part of this project, Melanie will help record absent narratives of those who have found sanctuary in Minnesota, and these stories will be shared in video and written form to explore the concept of sanctuary as part of the WITNESS School Program.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Goodhue
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
The Woman's Club of Minneapolis
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,800

To hire a qualified historian to complete an evaluation to determine eligibility for listing in the National Register of Historic Places for the Woman's Club of Minneapolis.

Hennepin
Recipient
American Red Cross Twin Cities Area Chapter
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,986
To research and produce a small traveling exhibit about significant contributions of women to the Red Cross in World War I
Hennepin
Recipient
Kandiyohi County Historical Society
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To hire a qualified consultant to write an exhibit plan for a traveling exhibit on World War I in Kandiyohi County.
Big Stone
Chippewa
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
Redwood
Renville
Swift
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Lincoln SWCD
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$90,125
Fund Source

Over the years, the landscape of the Yellow Medicine Watershed has changed through drainage and loss of wetland areas. The Soil and Water Conservation Districts of Lincoln, Lyon and Yellow Medicine counties work cooperatively with the Yellow Medicine River Watershed District to oversee implementation of conservation practices in this watershed. Based on previous Clean Water Partnership diagnostic studies, it is known the river is receiving an excessive loading of nutrients, phosphorus and suspended solids. These conditions have led to declining dissolved oxygen levels as a result.

Lincoln
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500
To provide select students in grades 7-12 in the nine-county region with the opportunity to study their chosen art with a practicing professional artist and to attend arts workshops classes or other special training opportunities.
Blue Earth
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500
To provide select students in grades 7-12 in the nine-county region with the opportunity to study their chosen art with a practicing professional artist and to attend arts workshops classes or other special training opportunities.
Brown
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500
To provide select students in grades 7-12 in the nine-county region with the opportunity to study their chosen art with a practicing professional artist and to attend arts workshops classes or other special training opportunities.
Brown
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500
To provide select students in grades 7-12 in the nine-county region with the opportunity to study their chosen art with a practicing professional artist and to attend arts workshops classes or other special training opportunities.
Nicollet
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500
To provide select students in grades 7-12 in the nine-county region with the opportunity to study their chosen art with a practicing professional artist and to attend arts workshops classes or other special training opportunities.
Nicollet
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500
To provide select students in grades 7-12 in the nine-county region with the opportunity to study their chosen art with a practicing professional artist and to attend arts workshops classes or other special training opportunities.
Blue Earth
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500
To provide select students in grades 7-12 in the nine-county region with the opportunity to study their chosen art with a practicing professional artist and to attend arts workshops classes or other special training opportunities.
Blue Earth