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Recipient
Oyate Nipi Kte
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,815
To supplement previous work on preserving the Dakota language, which transmits history and cultural heritage, by defining 451 additional verbs.
Anoka
Hennepin
Redwood
Renville
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Anoka County
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,675
Fund Source

1.3 acre acquisition for Rice Creek Chain of Lakes Park Reserve

Anoka
Recipient
LimnoTech
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$54,696
Fund Source

The goal of the project is the development of an overall strategy for reduction of turbidity/TSS, with sets of sediment reduction initiatives and actions for various sources, to address the Minnesota River Turbidity TMDL and the South Metro Mississippi River TSS TMDL.

Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chippewa
Cottonwood
Dakota
Hennepin
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
McLeod
Nicollet
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Scott
Sibley
Stevens
Swift
Traverse
Watonwan
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Anoka Conservation District
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$55,602
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to assess water quality in the following Anoka County waterbodies: Minard Lake, Pickerel Lake, Trott Brook, Seelye Brook, Cedar Creek, and the Rum River.

Anoka
Recipient
Hawk Creek Watershed Project
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$99,217
Fund Source

This project will monitor six sites within the Minnesota River Basin: Hawk Creek near Maynard, Hawk Creek near Granite Falls, Beaver Creek near Beaver Falls, Yellow Medicine River near Granite Falls, Yellow Medicine River near Hanley Falls, and Spring Creek near Hanley Falls. The sites will be monitored according to MPCA’s Major Watershed Load Monitoring (WPLMN) Standard Operating Procedure, which is the procedure being followed for sites currently monitored by the Hawk Creek Watershed Project (HCWP).

Chippewa
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
Redwood
Renville
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Anoka County Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,117
To provide professional development for two staff members at the national American Association for State and Local History Conference in St. Paul, September 17-20, 2014.
Anoka
Recipient
Lac qui Parle County Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,465
To provide professional development for two staff members at the national American Association for State and Local History Conference in St. Paul, September 17-20, 2014.
Lac qui Parle
Recipient
University of Minnesota
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
Fund Source

These funds are being used to systematically collect data and produce statistically valid estimates of the rate of soil erosion and tracking the adoption of high residue cropping systems in in the 67 counties with greater than 30% land in agricultural row crop production. Designed to establish a long term program in Minnesota to collect data and produce county, watershed, and state wide estimates of soil erosion caused by water and wind along with tracking adoption of conservation measures to address erosion.

Becker
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chippewa
Chisago
Clay
Cottonwood
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Houston
Isanti
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Mahnomen
Recipient
University of Minnesota
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
Fund Source

These funds are being used to systematically collect data and produce statistically valid estimates of the rate of soil erosion and tracking the adoption of high residue cropping systems in counties with greater than 30% land in agricultural row crop production. Designed to establish a long term program in Minnesota to collect data and produce county, watershed, and state wide estimates of soil erosion caused by water and wind along with tracking adoption of conservation measures to address erosion.

Becker
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chippewa
Chisago
Clay
Cottonwood
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Houston
Isanti
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Mahnomen
Recipient
City of Madison
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$45,180

To hire a qualified consultant to develop architectural drawings for Madison City Hall, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Lac qui Parle
Recipient
Area 5 - Southwest Prairie Technical Service Area
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$240,000
Fund Source
Cottonwood
Jackson
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
Murray
Nobles
Pipestone
Redwood
Rock
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Yellow Medicine River WD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$551,712
Fund Source

The purpose of the Watershed Based Funding is to address priority concern 1, mitigate altered hydrology and minimize flooding and priority concern 2, minimize the transport of sediment, excess nutrients, and bacteria. The goal for the 2018/2019 is to reduce 300 tons of sediment per year, increase storage by 100 acre-feet per year, reduce nitrogen by 16,000 pounds per year and to reduce phosphorus by 800 pounds per year. Grant funds will also be used for technical staffing in order to have the capabilities of implementing the priority BMPs in the seven priority sub-watersheds.

Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Anoka CD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000
Fund Source

This project will provide public outreach and engagement throughout Anoka County through a newly formed county-wide partner collaboration of Anoka County Watersheds, Cities and the Soil and Water Conservation District. The ultimate goal of this project is to enlist the active support of target audiences to achieve water management goals. This project is funded through the Anoka County allocation of the Watershed-Based Funding Pilot Program for the Seven County Metropolitan Area.

Anoka
Recipient
Anoka, City of
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$114,274
Fund Source

This project will stabilize eroding riverbanks on the Mississippi River through a partnership of the City of Anoka and the Anoka Conservation District. The project will result in the reduction of total suspended solids by at least 5 tons per year and phosphorus by 8 pounds per year to the Mississippi River. This project is funded through the Anoka County allocation of the Watershed-Based Funding Pilot Program for the Seven County Metropolitan Area.

Anoka
Recipient
Coon Creek WD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$191,973
Fund Source

This project will improve water quality to Coon and Pleasure Creeks through the installation of stormwater pond filter bench retrofits in the cities of Blaine and Coon Rapids. Filter bench media will consist of iron-enhanced sand and biochar media to maximize reduction of dissolved and bacterial pollutants. Public events will also be held to engage stakeholders during the project. This project is funded through the Anoka County allocation of the Watershed-Based Funding Pilot Program for the Seven County Metropolitan Area.

Anoka
Recipient
Sunrise River WMO
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$156,750
Fund Source

This multifaceted project will provide education and install practices to improve water quality in the Sunrise River Watershed. This will be accomplished by: 1) retrofitting stormwater basins and treating stormwater through swales and/or rain gardens to reduce nutrients and sediment to Coon and Martin Lakes, 2) surveying carp populations and developing a Linwood Lake carp feasibility study and management plan, and 3) increasing lakeshore stewardship projects on Typo, Coon, Fawn, Pet, Linwood, Island Lakes through environmental education about water quality.

Anoka
Recipient
Area 4 - Metropolitan SWCDs Technical Service Area
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$240,000
Fund Source
Anoka
Carver
Chisago
Dakota
Hennepin
Isanti
Ramsey
Scott
Sherburne
Washington
Wright
Recipient
Rice Creek WD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$413,336
Fund Source
Anoka
Hennepin
Hennepin
Recipient
Lac qui Parle SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
Fund Source

Provides grants to Soil and Water Conservation Districts that focuses on increasing capacity to address four resource concern areas?Soil Erosion, Riparian Zone Management, Water Storage and Treatment, and Excess Nutrients.

Lac qui Parle
Recipient
Anoka CD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source
Anoka
Recipient
Lac qui Parle SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
Fund Source
Lac qui Parle
Recipient
Anoka CD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$128,180
Fund Source
Anoka
Recipient
Anoka CD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source
Anoka
Recipient
Yellow Medicine River WD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$814,603
Fund Source
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Coon Creek WD
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$77,542
Fund Source
Anoka
Recipient
Anoka CD
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$113,193
Fund Source
Anoka
Recipient
Vadnais Lake Area WMO
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$93,042
Fund Source
Anoka
Ramsey
Recipient
Lac qui Parle SWCD
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Fund Source
Lac qui Parle
Recipient
Lac qui Parle SWCD
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$122,611
Fund Source
Lac qui Parle
Recipient
Anoka CD
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Fund Source
Anoka
Recipient
Lac qui Parle SWCD
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,800
Fund Source
Lac qui Parle
Recipient
Anoka CD
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$128,180
Fund Source
Anoka
Recipient
Lac qui Parle-Yellow Bank WD
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$231,391
Fund Source
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lincoln
Recipient
Anoka CD
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,600
Fund Source
Anoka
Recipient
Chisago SWCD
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,264,531
Fund Source
Anoka
Chisago
Isanti
Pine
Washington
Recipient
Rice Creek WD
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$93,042
Fund Source
Anoka
Recipient
Rice Creek WD
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
Fund Source

Rice Creek WD proposes completion of three projects during this WBIF cycle: 1) Clearwater Creek Stabilization Scoping: The portion of the Main Trunk of Anoka Washington Judicial Ditch 3 (AWJD3, also known as Clearwater Creek) downstream of I-35E has a steep grade with heavily scoured and sloughing banks due to high peak flows and channel velocities and unstable sandy soils.

Anoka
Ramsey
Recipient
Anoka CD
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$371,157
Fund Source

We will carry out activities selected by the Rum River metro watershed convene group including the Upper and Lower Rum River Watershed Management Organizations, Anoka Conservation District, and a city representative.

Anoka
Recipient
Vadnais Lake Area WMO
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,000
Fund Source

Implementation of Vadnais Lake Area WMO (VLAWMO)'s existing Landscape Level 2 Grant Program to install at least 1 BMP project between 2023-2025 to make progress on water quality impairments within four priority subwatersheds: Lambert Creek, Goose, Birch, and Gilfillan-Tamarack-Black-Wilkinson-Amelia. Eligible BMPs include project types identified in the Board-approved Landscape Level 2 Grant Policy. The anticipated outcome is a reduction in phosphorus by at least 0.3 pounds annually. This activity will also result in strengthened partnerships with Vadnais Lake Area WPA communities.

Anoka
Ramsey
Recipient
Anoka CD
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,500
Fund Source
Anoka