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Carver County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$29,486
Fund Source

Acquire 0.5 acre parcel for Southwest Regional Trail

Carver
Recipient
Carver County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,039
Fund Source

Southwest Regional Trail, acquire 0. 35 acres, connect the Minnesota River Bluffs Regional Trail and Southwest Regional Trail

Carver
Recipient
Carver County
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$394,543
Fund Source

Acquire 1.28-acre Country Store parcel for Lake Waconia Regional Park

Carver
Recipient
Washington County
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$436,697
Fund Source

Acquisition of 43-acre Appert parcel for Grey Cloud Island Regional Park

Washington
Recipient
Anoka Conservation District
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$400,000
Fund Source

A direct appropriation of $400,000 in FY 2010 for the Anoka Conservation District (ACD) is for the metropolitan landscape restoration program for water quality and improvement projects in the seven-county metro area (the law also provides $600,000 for this purpose in FY2011).

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Carver County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$257,000
Fund Source

Lake Minnewashta Regional Park. Complete 2.6-mile internal park trail and grade separated trail crossing of TH 41.

Carver
Recipient
Washington County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$275,000
Fund Source

Lake Elmo Park Reserve. Construct trailhead building at winter recreation area, construct new well, septic, site lighting, trails, parking, and related infrastructure, landscaping and amenities.

Washington
Recipient
Anoka County
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
Fund Source

At Rice Creek Chain of Lakes Park Reserve and Bunker Hills Regional Park Campgrounds construct a total of four camper cabins.

Anoka
Recipient
Anoka County
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
Fund Source

Bunker Hills Regional Park. Construct an additional 25 electric/water hook-up campsites at Bunker Hills Regional Park.

Anoka
Recipient
Faribault Soil and Water Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$41,344
Fund Source

Nearly 700 miles of open water flow through Faribault County's borders. Over one-third of these miles are artificial drainage systems. Artificial drainage systems are necessary to remove excess precipitation and improve the productivity of agricultural land, however they also have a direct effect on the water quality and quantity of receiving waterbodies. With limited resources available to manage these systems, innovative and efficient management tools will play a critical role in targeting improvements for water quality.

Faribault
Recipient
Washington Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$56,175
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to offer grant funding to boat marinas located in Washington County on the St. Croix River to complete water quality improvement projects. St. Croix marinas own large amounts of shoreline plus there are roads, parking areas, buildings, and garages. These all produce runoff that drains directly into the St. Croix River. Marinas also often include pollution hotspots due to the presence of boat fueling areas.

Washington
Recipient
Wright Soil and Water Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$66,580
Fund Source

The Crow River is a major river system in Wright County that is of local and regional significance. It is a major recreation area in its own right but also flows into the Mississippi River 20 miles from the Minneapolis Drinking Water Plant intake. Elevated sediment levels in the river increases the cost of treating the river water and threatens fisheries habitat.

Wright
Recipient
Anoka County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$382,000
Fund Source

Mississippi West Regional Park.?Design and construct new boat launch, improve existing roadway, fishing pier/ observation deck, utilities, landscape restoration, signs and site furnishings, plus associated permit fees and contingencies.MC Action on 06/27/2012 reduced the grant amount from $400,000 to $382,000.

Anoka
Recipient
Anoka County
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$450,000
Fund Source

Rice Creek North Regional Trail. Design and construct approximately 4,200 lineal feet of the Rice Creek North Regional Trail from Hodgson Road to Baldwin City Park.

Anoka
Recipient
Anoka County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
Fund Source

Rice Creek Chain of Lakes Park Reserve. Develop day camp, picnic shelters, utilities, etc.

Anoka
Recipient
Washington County
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$595,000
Fund Source

Lake Elmo Park Reserve. Build Winter Recreation Area including plan winter recreation area, develop recreation facilities to accommodate evening use; install lighting for ski trails and site; develop roads and parking lot; remodel barn for use as a trailhead. A?

Washington
Recipient
Comfort Lake Forest Lake Watershed District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,200
Fund Source

The Comfort Lake Forest Lake Watershed includes numerous private ditches and partially drained wetlands which are a priority for mapping, assessment and restoration. The project will include the mapping and assessment of all drained and partially drained wetlands in the watershed. In addition, a web-based GIS system will be developed to inventory, assess, target and track the effectiveness of various conservation practices towards the attainment of water quality goals.

Chisago
Washington
Recipient
Faribault Soil and Water Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$37,574
Fund Source

The East Branch Blue Earth River is currently negatively impacted and has been shown to contribute disproportionately high sediment loads to the Minnesota River. With limited funds available for implementing conservation practices, targeting tools to pinpoint locations where conservation practices have the highest effectiveness are increasingly important. Innovative use of technology can help streamline these targeting procedures.

Faribault
Recipient
Multiple Local Government Units
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,234,350
Fund Source

Currently, there are approximately 5,050 feedlots with fewer than 300 animal units that need to come into compliance with State feedlot rules. Clean Water Feedlot Water Quality Management Grant funds are being used to provide financial assistance to landowners with feedlot operations less than 300 animal units in size and located in a riparian area or impaired watershed.

Aitkin
Benton
Dodge
Douglas
Fillmore
Goodhue
Morrison
Renville
Stearns
Waseca
Washington
Winona
Recipient
Comfort Lake-Forest Lake Watershed District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$176,047
Fund Source

Comfort Lake is one of Chisago county's largest recreational lakes. Comfort Lake is of regional significance with public access for boating, fishing and swimming. A pollution reduction study was conducted for the lake because of decreasing water quality. This study identified highly urban areas as one of the sources of nutrients.

Chisago
Washington
Recipient
South Washington Watershed District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$156,645
Fund Source

In partnership with the Washington Conservation District and City of Woodbury, this project will improve water quality in Colby Lake through implementing 30 priority small-scale water quality conservation practices. Projects may include bioretention, vegetated swales and pond modifications. Priority projects were identified as part of the Colby Lake Watershed Retrofit Assessment and represent the most cost-effective means to reduce excess phosphorus loads that have impacted Colby Lake.

Washington
Recipient
Anoka County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$88,000
Fund Source

Rice Creek Chain of Lakes Park Reserve. Install interactive computer kiosk to provide park activity information.

Anoka
Recipient
Anoka County
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$52,462
Fund Source

Install a fishing pier at Lake George Regional Park.

Anoka
Recipient
Brown's Creek Watershed District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$158,800
Fund Source

In collaboration with the University of Minnesota St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, City of Stillwater and MN DNR Waters and Fisheries an iron-enhanced sand filter will be designed. This filter will remove approximately 118 pounds of total phosphorous per year from an area of Stillwater that ultimately drains to the St. Croix River, a national Wild and Scenic River that has a decling water quality trend.

Washington
Recipient
Middle St. Croix Watershed Management Organization
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$45,525
Fund Source

Lily Lake, near Stillwater, is a popular recreational spot for residents with its swimming beach, fishing pier, and canoe access. Lily Lake's water quality is declining because of excess nutrients. Restoring it is a priority for the community of Stillwater.

Washington
Recipient
Middle St. Croix Watershed Management Organization
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$194,900
Fund Source

Lily Lake,near Stillwater, is a popular recreational spot for residents with its swimming beach, fishing pier, and canoe access. Lily Lake's water quality is declining because of excess nutrients. Restoring it is a priority for the community of Stillwater.
This project is a continaution project of the Phase I project that started in the spring of 2011 and complements the Phase II project recently funded in 2012. Specifically, this project will implement two large stormwater retrofits in large parking lots of DiaSoren Manufacturing and the Valley Ridge Mall.

Washington
Recipient
Carver County
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$205,000
Fund Source

Up to $205,000 to match $1,729,000 of a Federal Transportation Enhancement grant, Transportation Enhancement ARRA funds and Carver County Regional Rail Authority funds for land acquisition, trail design, trail and trailhead construction of 6.9 mile segment of the Dakota Rail Regional Trail. Any remaining funds used to partially finance the match to a $1 million Federal Transportation Enhancement grant to design and construct a trail in Lake Minnewashta Regional Park and a trail underpass of Trunk Highway 41 that links to a City of Chanhassen trail.

Carver
Recipient
Wright Soil and Water Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$32,201
Fund Source

Due to its high water quality, protecting Martha Lake is a prioirty for Wright County. A monitoring study of the tile system outlet that flows into Lake Martha revealed high amounts of dissolved phosphorus were entering the lake through the tile system. This validated the concerns of the Lake Martha Lake Association.

Wright
Recipient
Middle St. Croix Watershed Management Organization
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$37,925
Fund Source

MuKusick Lake's water quality is declining because of excess nutrients and restoring it is a priority for the Stillwater community.
This project will work to implement priority stormwater treatment projects that were identified in the 2010 McKusick Lake Stormwater Retrofit Assessment. This project will be the first phase of stormwater treatment implementation projects within the McKusick Lake watershed and will provide approximately 10% of the needed phosphorus reduction.

Washington
Recipient
Metro Conservation Districts
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$216,181
Fund Source

Through a long standing partnership, this project will continue to implement a process formalized with a 2010 Clean Water Fund Grant to conduct stormwater sub-watershed assessments. The goal of the sub-watershed assessments is to accelerate water quality improvements by focusing efforts in high priority areas. Specifically, subwatershed assessments are a tool used to identify the most effective urban stormwater conservation practice by location.

Anoka
Carver
Chisago
Dakota
Hennepin
Isanti
Ramsey
Scott
Sherburne
Washington
Wright
Recipient
Metropolitan Council
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,290,000

The Twin Cities area is host to a nationally renowned system of regional parks that provides numerous outdoor recreational opportunities for the public while preserving green space for wildlife habitat. The Metropolitan Council is using this appropriation to partially finance the acquisition of approximately 195 acres to be added to existing metropolitan regional parks, with priority given to lands with shoreland, lands that provide important natural resource connections, and lands containing unique natural resources.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Bois de Sioux Watershed District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$333,200
Fund Source

The Mustinka River winds through five counties in west central Minnesota and empties into Lake Traverse, a border waters lake with excellent fishing and recreational opportunities. For several years, sections of the river have been negatively impacted from too much soil/sediment eroding from the land and washing away into the water. Excess sediment degrades aquatic habitat and feeds algae blooms.
This project continues a 2011 Clean Water Fund collaborative effort to develop a plan to reduce the amount of sediment washed into the river.

Big Stone
Grant
Stevens
Traverse
Wilkin
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Anoka County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$108,000
Fund Source

County-wide. Hire Conservation Corps Minnesota to implement natural resource rehabilitation and facility development projects.

Anoka
Recipient
Anoka County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000
Fund Source
Anoka
Recipient
BWSR
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000


PROJECT OVERVIEW

Aitkin
Beltrami
Carlton
Cass
Clearwater
Cook
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Isanti
Itasca
Kanabec
Koochiching
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Mille Lacs
Pine
St. Louis
Wadena
Recipient
Anoka Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$339,700
Fund Source

Oak Glen Creek is immediately upstream of drinking water intakes for Minneapolis and St. Paul. When it rains, the runoff along Oak Glen Creek runs down bare soil cliffs that are 20 to 30 feet high, causing large amounts of sediment to erode into the creek and make its way to the Mississippi River. This corridor stabilization project will address multiple local and regional priorities and will benefit both cities source water projection efforts.

Anoka
Recipient
Pomme de Terre River Association
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$350,470
Fund Source

The Pomme de Terre River watershed is located in west central Minnesota and occupies a portion of six counties. For many years surface water quality within the watershed has been a concern to local government. In 1982 the Pomme de Terre River Association Joint Powers Board was formed to begin addressing this issue. In 2002 the Pomme de Terre River was placed on the Impaired Waters list for turbidity. This project is a continuation of a 2011 Clean Water Fund project.

Big Stone
Douglas
Grant
Otter Tail
Stevens
Swift
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Mississippi Headwaters Board
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
Fund Source

The 400-mile stretch of the Mississippi River from its headwaters at Lake Itasca to Morrison County near Little Falls is the focus of this project. Working in cooperation with the eight member counties, this project will develop implementation plans and strategies geared specifically for the Mississippi River and incorporate them into the individual County Comprehensive Local Water Plans. These recommendations will be for specific strategies, often crossing county boundaries for implementation.

Aitkin
Beltrami
Cass
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Itasca
Morrison
Recipient
Red River Watershed Management Board
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$194,490
Fund Source

This project will provide land and water managers in the Red River Basin with data and online tools to prioritize actions on the landscape that achieve water quality objectives identified in local and state plans. This will help identify strategically important locations for implementing erosion control and water management practices. Standardized watershed-based data products will be integrated into a web-based planning tool which will be added to the Red River Basin Decision Information Network (RRBDIN) being developed as part of the Red River Watershed Feasibility Study.

Becker
Beltrami
Big Stone
Clay
Clearwater
Grant
Itasca
Kittson
Koochiching
Lake of the Woods
Mahnomen
Marshall
Norman
Otter Tail
Pennington
Polk
Red Lake
Roseau
Stevens
Traverse
Wilkin