All Projects

218 Results for
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
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
Chippewa River Watershed Project
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$136,325
Fund Source

This project will work with the MPCA to conduct watershed pollutant load monitoring at four sites in the Chippewa River watershed and one site in the neighboring Pomme de Terre River watershed . The Chippewa River Watershed Project (CRWP) team will also aid the MPCA in measuring and comparing regional differences and long-term trends in water quality. The goal is to collect quality data and complete load calculations for the five sites using the MPCA's established protocols.

Big Stone
Chippewa
Douglas
Grant
Kandiyohi
Otter Tail
Pope
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Recipient
Minnesota Humanities Center
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$120,000
Fund Source

This project will use the We Are Water MN traveling exhibit and the Minnesota Humanities Center's approach to community engagement, relationship building, and storytelling, to increase community capacity for sustainable watershed management in six Minnesota watersheds.

Aitkin
Anoka
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carlton
Carver
Cottonwood
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Itasca
Lake
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Nicollet
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pipestone
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Rock
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
St. Louis
Steele
Stevens
Swift
Wabasha
Washington
Watonwan
Recipient
Minnesota Humanities Center
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$280,000
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$104,540
Fund Source

This project will use the We Are Water MN traveling exhibit and the Minnesota Humanities Center's approach to community engagement, relationship building, and storytelling, to increase community capacity for sustainable watershed management in five Minnesota watersheds. The following communities were selected as host sites for this project:
Winona (City of Winona), active hosting period: March 3-April 25, 2022
Lake City (Lake Pepin Legacy Alliance), active hosting period: April 28-June 20, 2022

Aitkin
Anoka
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carlton
Carver
Cottonwood
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Isanti
Lake
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Nicollet
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pipestone
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Rock
Sherburne
Sibley
St. Louis
Steele
Stevens
Swift
Wabasha
Washington
Watonwan
Recipient
Mankato Area 77 Lancers Marching Band Parents Association, Inc.
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

Arts and Cultural Heritage

Blue Earth
Carver
Douglas
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Nicollet
Ramsey
Steele
Stearns
Swift
Recipient
Mankato Area 77 Lancers Marching Band Parents Association, Inc.
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

Arts and Cultural Heritage

Benton
Blue Earth
Carver
Douglas
Martin
Mille Lacs
Nicollet
Nobles
Ramsey
Steele
Stearns
Swift
Winona
Recipient
Mankato Area 77 Lancers Marching Band
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,000

Arts and Cultural Heritage

Benton
Blue Earth
Carver
Douglas
Martin
Mille Lacs
Nicollet
Nobles
Ramsey
Steele
Stearns
Swift
Winona
Recipient
Gaylord Area Chamber of Commerce
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,000

Arts and Cultural Heritage

Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chippewa
Le Sueur
Hennepin
McLeod
Otter Tail
Redwood
Sibley
Recipient
Mankato Area 77 Lancers Marching Band
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,000

Arts and Cultural Heritage

Benton
Blue Earth
Carver
Douglas
Hennepin
Mille Lacs
Nicollet
Stearns
Steele
Watonwan
Recipient
Mankato Area 77 Lancers Marching Band Parents Association, Inc.
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000

Arts and Cultural Heritage

Blue Earth
Carver
Douglas
Martin
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Nicollet
Ramsey
Sherburne
Steele
Stearns
Swift
Recipient
CityArt Sculpture Walk
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,500
Arts and Cultural Heritage, Arts Project
Blue Earth
Brown
Faribault
Le Sueur
Martin
Nicollet
Sibley
Waseca
Watonwan
Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Olmsted
Mower
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Big Stone
Chippewa
Cottonwood
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lincoln
Lac qui Parle
Lyon
McLeod
Meeker
Murray
Nobles
Pipestone
Redwood
Renville
Rock
Swift
Yellow Medicine
Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Mankato Area 77 Lancers Marching Band
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,500
Arts and Cultural Heritage, Arts Project
Blue Earth
Nicollet
Waseca
Swift
Steele
Freeborn
Mower
Carver
Hennepin
Stearns
Douglas
Ramsey
Recipient
Mankato Area 77 Lancers Marching Band AKA Mankato Area 77 Lancers Marching Band Parent Assn.
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,550
Mankato Area 77 Lancers Marching Band
Blue Earth
Carver
Douglas
Freeborn
Hennepin
Mower
Nicollet
Ramsey
Stearns
Steele
Swift
Waseca
Recipient
CityArt Sculpture Walk
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,500
CityArt Sculpture Walk
Anoka
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chippewa
Cottonwood
Dakota
Dodge
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Hennepin
Houston
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Mower
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Olmsted
Pipestone
Ramsey
Recipient
Mankato Area Youth Symphony Orchestra
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,000
Arts and Cultural Heritage
Blue Earth
Brown
Carlton
Cottonwood
Dakota
Faribault
Freeborn
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Le Sueur
Lyon
Hennepin
Martin
McLeod
Nicollet
Olmsted
Ramsey
Renville
Rice
Redwood
Scott
Sibley
St. Louis
Steele
Stevens
Watonwan
Waseca
Recipient
CityArt Sculpture Walk
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
Arts and Cultural Heritage, Arts Project
Anoka
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chippewa
Cottonwood
Dakota
Dodge
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Hennepin
Houston
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Mower
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Olmsted
Pipestone
Ramsey
Recipient
Mankato Area 77 Lancers Marching Band
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
Arts and Cultural Heritage, Arts Project
Blue Earth
Carver
Douglas
Freeborn
Hennepin
Mower
Nicollet
Ramsey
Stearns
Steele
Swift
Waseca
Recipient
CityArt Sculpture Walk
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,000
Arts and Cultural Heritage, Arts Project
Anoka
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chippewa
Cottonwood
Dakota
Dodge
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Hennepin
Houston
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Mower
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Olmsted
Pipestone
Ramsey
Recipient
Mankato Area 77 Lancers Marching Band
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,000
Arts and Cultural Heritage, Arts Project
Blue Earth
Carver
Douglas
Freeborn
Hennepin
Mower
Nicollet
Ramsey
Stearns
Steele
Swift
Waseca
Recipient
Mankato Area 77 Lancers Marching Band
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,000
Arts and Cultural Heritage, Arts Project
Blue Earth
Benton
Carver
Douglas
Hennepin
Le Sueur
Nicollet
Stearns
Steele
Swift
Waseca
Recipient
ProMusica Minnesota
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,313

Arts and Cultural Heritage

Blue Earth
Brown
Cottonwood
Dakota
Hennepin
Nicollet
Rice
Sibley
Stearns
Stevens
Stevens
Recipient
Morris, City of
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
Fund Source
This grant to the City of Morris provides public improvements for the beneficial use of wastewater effluent, where beneficial use is defined as the use of stormwater or wastewater effluent from a publicly owned wastewater treatement plant to replace the use of groundwater.
Stevens
Recipient
Emmons & Olivier Resources, Inc.
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$14,950
Fund Source

This project will result in the final the Bois de Sioux River Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategies (WRAPS) report and Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) study. This work order will authorize the consultant to address all comments received during the public notice period and produce the final WRAPS report for the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's final approval and a final TMDL study for United States Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) final approval.

Grant
Otter Tail
Traverse
Wilkin
Recipient
RESPEC
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$14,997
Fund Source

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) requires the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) to carry out the Total Maximum Daily Load Program (TMDL) in the state of Minnesota. Minnesota has an abundance of lakes and river reaches, many of which will require a TMDL study. In an effort to expedite the completion of TMDL projects, the MPCA has decided to construct watershed models. These models have the potential to support the simultaneous development of TMDL studies for multiple listings within a cataloging unit or 8-digit Hydrologic Unit Code watershed.

Big Stone
Grant
Stevens
Traverse
Wilkin
Recipient
RESPEC
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$62,485
Fund Source

This project involves the extension and update of the Hydrological Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) model for the Bois de Sioux and Mustinka watersheds.

Big Stone
Grant
Otter Tail
Stevens
Traverse
Wilkin
Recipient
Emmons & Olivier Resources Inc
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,381
Fund Source

This project will address United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) comments on the preliminary draft Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) study and Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) comments on the pre-public notice draft TMDL study and Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) report, and produce the public notice draft TMDL study and the public notice draft WRAPS report ready for public review and comment. Conduct one public meeting for each watershed to present public notice drafts of the TMDL study and WRAPS report for each watershed.

Grant
Otter Tail
Traverse
Wilkin
Recipient
Bois de Sioux Watershed District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
Fund Source

This project will develop a watershed approach plan, including impaired waters allocations, for the Mustinka Watershed, located at the headwaters of the Red River of the North, in western Minnesota, lying partly in Grant, Stevens, Ottertail, Big Stone, and Traverse counties. The watershed approach plan will set water quality goals for the watershed, recommend allocations for achieving total maximum daily loads where waters do not meet state standards and are listed as impaired.

Big Stone
Grant
Otter Tail
Stevens
Traverse
Recipient
Tetra Tech
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,925
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to complete the construction of an Hydrologic Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) watershed model for the Buffalo River watershed. Tetra Tech will produce a HSPF watershed model application(s) that will be fully functioning and ready for calibration as part of Phase 2. 

Becker
Clay
Otter Tail
Wilkin
Recipient
Tetra Tech
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,491
Fund Source

This is the second phase of building the Hydrologic Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) model for the Buffalo River watershed. The project will result in a completed model including necessary calibration and validation phases.

Becker
Clay
Otter Tail
Wilkin
Recipient
RESPEC
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$29,991
Fund Source

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) requires the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) to carry out the Total Maximum Daily Load Program (TMDL) in the state of Minnesota. Minnesota has an abundance of lakes and river reaches, many of which will require a TMDL study. In an effort to expedite the completion of TMDL projects, the MPCA has decided to construct watershed models. These models have the potential to support the simultaneous development of TMDL studies for multiple listings within a cataloging unit or 8-digit Hydrologic Unit Code watershed.

Becker
Clay
Otter Tail
Wilkin
Recipient
Houston Engineering
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$70,921
Fund Source

This project will continue to develop, and calibrate/validate the hydrology of an Hydrological Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) watershed model for the Buffalo River watershed. The consultant will add representation of point source discharges to the model. The consultant will compile flow data for the purposes of calibration and validation. An initial hydrologic calibration will be performed and submitted for approval.

Wilkin
Otter Tail
Clay
Becker
Recipient
Houston Engineering
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,953
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to address public comments on the public noticed draft Watershed Restoration & Protection Strategy (WRAPS) study and Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) report for the watershed, and to produce a final draft WRAPS study and TMDL report ready for final approval by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA).

Becker
Clay
Otter Tail
Wilkin
Recipient
Cass County Environmental Services Department
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$198,971
Fund Source

This monitoring project includes lake and stream monitoring and encompasses all of Cass County, and surrounding counties. The project will obtain water quality data for streams; in 2009, lakeshed assessments indicated that many surface waters throughout the county were data deficient. This project will address the need for sufficient data on a county-wide basis and fulfill the State’s intensive watershed monitoring program goals by obtaining water quality data at targeted lake and stream sites.

Aitkin
Becker
Beltrami
Carlton
Cass
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Itasca
Morrison
Otter Tail
St. Louis
Todd
Wadena
Recipient
RESPEC
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$14,989
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to extend the existing Chippewa River Hydrologic Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) watershed model. The contractor will produce an HSPF model with meteorological, point source, and atmospheric deposition input timeseries extended through 2020.

Chippewa
Douglas
Grant
Kandiyohi
Pope
Stevens
Swift
Recipient
Chippewa River Watershed Association
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000
Fund Source

The Chippewa River Watershed Association (CRWA) will lead programs to tell a watershed story on the state of our waters and efforts needed to protect or restore them. The CRWA will partner with local offices on existing local educational efforts and will support these types of events. Activities will focus on priority areas and information sharing as outlined in the Chippewa River Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategies (WRAPS) Public Participation Plan.

Chippewa
Douglas
Grant
Kandiyohi
Otter Tail
Pope
Stevens
Swift
Recipient
Chippewa River Watershed
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$31,912
Fund Source

The purpose of this project is to create a shared plan for the Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) process with roles, responsibilities, commitments and deliverables clearly understood by all (Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA), Chippewa River Watershed, and local partners). The MPCA and the Chippewa River Watershed Project (CRWP) will be working together to ascertain the level of involvement that local units of government and other partners want to engage in for the second round of the WRAPS process.

Chippewa
Douglas
Grant
Kandiyohi
Otter Tail
Pope
Stevens
Swift
Recipient
Chippewa River Watershed Project
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$296,965
Fund Source

The goal of the Chippewa River Watershed Protection project is to protect unimpaired areas of the watershed. This will be accomplished through education and outreach with landowners and through implementation of best management practices.

Chippewa
Douglas
Grant
Kandiyohi
Pope
Stevens
Swift
Recipient
Tetra Tech Inc
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,097
Fund Source

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) developed the Chippewa River Watershed Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) report in 2016 that addresses impairments 48 separate impairment listings for 16 stream reaches and 25 lakes in the watershed. The purpose of this project is to support the development of TMDLs for additional streams reaches and lakes that were not previously completed. MPCA has identified 12 waterbodies with aquatic recreation or aquatic life impairments that need to be addressed through the development of new TMDLs.

Chippewa
Douglas
Grant
Kandiyohi
Otter Tail
Pope
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Recipient
Chippewa River Watershed Project
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,429
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$40,197
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$28,066
Fund Source

The Chippewa River Watershed Project (CRWP) will work with the Minnesot Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) to conduct watershed pollutant load monitoring at four sites in the Chippewa River watershed and one site in the neighboring Pomme de Terre River watershed to aid the MPCA in measuring and comparing regional differences and long-term trends in water quality. Our goal is to collect quality data and complete load calculations for five sites using the MPCA's Watershed Pollutant Load Monitoring Network (WPLMN) established protocols.

Chippewa
Stevens
Swift