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Recipient
Ramsey County
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
Fund Source

Ramsey County SWCD is applying to continue the implementation of its popular and successful well sealing cost-share program to help protect the groundwater, especially in highly vulnerable drinking water supply management areas, by permanently and professionally sealing between 115 and 140 abandoned wells in the county.

Ramsey
Recipient
Middle St. Croix River WMO
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$78,760
Fund Source

This project will design and install targeted practices to reduce the volume, sediment and phosphorus from urban stormwater runoff directly discharging into Perro Creek and Lily Lake. This project is funded through the Washington County allocation of the Watershed-Based Funding Pilot Program for the Seven County Metropolitan Area.

Washington
Recipient
Ramsey County
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$44,200
Fund Source
Ramsey
Recipient
Ramsey-Washington Metro WD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$205,606
Fund Source

This project will improve the water quality of lakes in Ramsey and Washington Counties. This will be accomplished by: 1) installation of filtration basins adjacent to Wakefield Lake to reduce nutrient and sediment pollution, and 2) construction of raingardens on private property that filter stormwater runoff thereby reducing sediment and nutrient pollution to Battle Creek Lake and Kohlman Creek. This project is funded through the Ramsey County and Washington County allocations of the Watershed-Based Funding Pilot Program for the Seven County Metropolitan Area.

Ramsey
Recipient
Vadnais Lake Area WMO
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$59,039
Fund Source

This project will conduct a subwatershed feasibility study to identify and prioritize project locations for retrofit of stormwater best management practices. The project will also include installation of the highest priority stormwater improvement practice to reduce nutrient pollution to Goose Lake. This project is funded through the Anoka County and Ramsey County allocations of the Watershed-Based Funding Pilot Program for the Seven County Metropolitan Area.

Ramsey
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
Area 6 - South Central Technical Service Area
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$240,000
Fund Source
Blue Earth
Brown
Faribault
Le Sueur
Martin
McLeod
Nicollet
Renville
Sibley
Waseca
Watonwan
Recipient
Cottonwood SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
Fund Source
Cottonwood
Recipient
Carnelian-Marine-St. Croix WD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$78,760
Fund Source
Washington
Recipient
Washington Conservation District
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$78,760
Fund Source
Washington
Recipient
Jackson 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.

Jackson
Recipient
Ramsey County
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.

Ramsey
Recipient
Brown SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
Fund Source
Brown
Recipient
Jackson SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
Fund Source
Jackson
Recipient
Washington Conservation District
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source
Washington
Recipient
Rice Creek WD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$392,000
Fund Source

The Rice Creek Watershed District (RCWD) is proposing to improve the water quality of stormwater runoff to Bald Eagle Lake through installation of a new wet pond and iron-enhanced sand filter (IESF) on Ramsey County Ditch #11. In partnership with White Bear Township, this project will remove approximately 43 pounds of phosphorus from runoff annually and builds upon the extensive work undertaken by the RCWD to improve water quality in Bald Eagle Lake.

Ramsey
Recipient
Comfort Lake-Forest Lake WD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$144,000
Fund Source

This project proposes the implementation of 10 best management practices identified as having the lowest cost-benefit ratio as it relates to phosphorus reduction to downstream Moody and Bone Lakes with an estimated reduction to watershed phosphorus loads to Bone Lake by 90 pounds per year and to Moody Lake by 24 pounds per year. The Bone Lake watershed is at the ?top? of the larger watershed, making it an ideal location to begin work that will have direct improvements downstream.

Chisago
Washington
Recipient
Redwood-Cottonwood Rivers Control Area
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
Fund Source

The Cottonwood River watershed is one of the last remaining watersheds to complete Cycle I of the Watershed Restoration & Protections Strategies (WRAPS) process. The scope of this project upon completion is have two reports developed; a Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategies report and a Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) for the entire watershed.

Lincoln
Lyon
Murray
Pipestone
Redwood
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Houston Engineering Inc
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$46,510
Fund Source

This project will develop a watershed wide Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) study and River Eutrophication Standard (RES) TMDL report for water quality impairments in the Des Moines River basin, which includes the Des Moines River Headwaters, Lower Des Moines River, and East Fork Des Moines River watersheds.

Cottonwood
Jackson
Lyon
Martin
Murray
Nobles
Pipestone
Recipient
Hawk Creek Watershed Project
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$99,134
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$58,655
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$40,953
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$13,031
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,781
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$141,641
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$21,099
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 the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) Watershed Pollutant Load Monitoring Network (WPLMN) Standard Operating Procedure, which is the procedure being followed for sites currently monitored by the Hawk Creek Watershed Project.

Renville
Yellow Medicine
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
Fund Source

Funding supports an Irrigation Specialist to develop guidance and provide education on irrigation and nitrogenbest management practices (BMPs). In this position, Dr. Vasu Sharma provides direct support to irrigators onissues of irrigation scheduling and soil water monitoring. She is collaborating on the development of new irrigationscheduling tools that help irrigators manage water and nitrogen resources more precisely. These tools help reducenitrogen leaching losses in irrigated cropping systems.

Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Cass
Chippewa
Clay
Crow Wing
Dakota
Douglas
Goodhue
Grant
Hubbard
Isanti
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Marshall
Meeker
Morrison
Mower
Norman
Otter Tail
Pipestone
Polk
Pope
Red Lake
Renville
Rice
Sherburne
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Wabasha
Wadena
Washington
Watonwan
Wright
Recipient
Middle St. Croix River WMO
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
Fund Source

This project proposes to address the largest phosphorus loads discharging from 885 acres to Lake St. Croix through the installation of targeted stormwater treatment best management practices ranked in the top 10 of those prioritized in the 2018 Lake St. Croix Direct Discharge South Stormwater Retrofit Analysis. The goal of this project is to reduce pollutant loading from four small communities to Lake St. Croix by at least ten pounds phosphorous.

Washington
Recipient
LimnoTech
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$11,920
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to finalize the Lake Pepin Watershed phosphorus total maximum daily load (TMDL) report by using the existing information and documentation prepared under previous contracts to prepare one TMDL report that addresses the impairments on the mainstem of the Mississippi River. Information developed to date for draft TMDLs on the Minnesota River mainstem will be documented for later use by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.

Anoka
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chippewa
Cottonwood
Dakota
Goodhue
Hennepin
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
McLeod
Nicollet
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Scott
Sibley
Wabasha
Washington
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
St. Croix River Association
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
Fund Source

The purpose of this project is to gain additional information about the amount of phosphorous flowing into Lake St Croix by implementing additional water quality monitoring and/or to reduce the amount of phosphorous entering Lake St Croix by the implementation of projects that will reduce phosphorus loadings. The St. Croix River Association (SCRA) will coordinate with a subgroup of the St. Croix Basin Water Resources Planning Team and other local resource experts on the identification and funding of comprehensive water monitoring and phosphorus reduction activities in the Lake St.

Aitkin
Carlton
Chisago
Kanabec
Mille Lacs
Pine
Washington
Recipient
Capitol Region WD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
Fund Source

Capitol Region Watershed District and the City of Lauderdale seek to improve water quality and flood control functions of Seminary Pond in Lauderdale. The project partners propose improvements to the pond including: 1) expansion of the pond?s storage area and 2) construction of an iron-enhanced sand filter. These improvements were identified as being the most cost-effective and will remove an estimated additional 2 tons of sediment and 9 pounds of phosphorus annually.

Ramsey
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
Area 4 - Metropolitan SWCDs Technical Service Area
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
Fund Source

It is critical to train new staff, create modeling protocols for new BMPs, refine and calibrate models, and test ever-advancing modeling applications. The Metro Conservation District?s (MCD) Sub-Watershed Analysis (SWA) program provides these capacity-building services and unites efforts across 11 SWCDs. MCD proposes to analyze an additional 15 subwatersheds. The analyses will identify the location and estimated cost/benefit relationship for BMPs, evolve with new technology, and share discoveries metro-wide.

Anoka
Carver
Chisago
Dakota
Hennepin
Isanti
Ramsey
Scott
Sherburne
Washington
Wright
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000,000
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,000,000
Fund Source

This project will establish a groundwater monitoring network in the 11 county metropolitan area. The network will provide information about aquifer characteristics and natural water trends by monitoring healthy aquifers (non-stressed systems). The project will also develop an automated system that captures groundwater level and water use data. This system will enhance evaluation of changes in aquifers that are stressed by pumping from existing wells.

Anoka
Carver
Chisago
Dakota
Hennepin
Isanti
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Wright
Sherburne
Recipient
Tetra Tech Inc
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$89,477
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to extend existing Hydrologic Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) models through 2017 for the following major watersheds: Redwood, Cottonwood, Watonwan, Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Pomme de Terre, Minnesota River-Headwaters, and Lac Qui Parle watersheds.

Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Chippewa
Cottonwood
Douglas
Faribault
Freeborn
Grant
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Martin
Murray
Otter Tail
Pipestone
Pope
Redwood
Renville
Stevens
Swift
Traverse
Waseca
Watonwan
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Lac qui Parle-Yellow Bank WD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300,000
Fund Source

Del Clark Lake is a regionally unique resource in the Lac qui Parle Watershed. This grant contains both restoration and protection strategies aiming to maintain the quality of this rare and valuable resource in addition to restoring the recently impaired Canby Creek, which feeds into Del Clark Lake. Three grade control structures will be implemented just upstream of Del Clark to protect against sediment and aid in regulating flows. An estimate 240 pounds of phosphorous and 2,700 tons of sediment will be reduced annually.

Lincoln
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Redwood-Cottonwood Rivers Control Area (RCRCA)
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$142,257
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$40,405
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$28,078
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$51,246
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$73,370
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$94,396
Fund Source

The overall goal of this project is to perform water quality monitoring and load calculation duties to accomplish Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) Watershed Pollutant Load Monitoring Network (WPLMN) monitoring efforts at the seven sites within the Redwood and Cottonwood River watersheds as well as the Minnesota River site near Morton. To accomplish this goal the requested funds will provide for technician’s time, mileage, lab costs, supplies, as well as equipment calibration and upkeep.

Brown
Lyon
Redwood
Recipient
Multiple Local Government Units
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$290,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$112,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
Fund Source

Approximately 70 percent of all Minnesotans rely on groundwater as their primary source of drinking water. Wells used for drinking water must be properly sealed when removed from service to protect both public health and Minnesota’s invaluable groundwater resources. The Minnesota Department of Health with the assistance of the Board of Water and Soil Resources protects both public health and groundwater by assuring the proper sealing of unused wells.” Clean Water funds are being provided to home owners as a 50% cost-share assistance for sealing unused private drinking water wells.

Benton
Big Stone
Carver
Crow Wing
Douglas
Hennepin
Mahnomen
Martin
Mille Lacs
Norman
Otter Tail
Ramsey
Rice
Sherburne
Wright
Recipient
Carnelian-Marine-St. Croix WD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$127,832
Fund Source

The Six Lakes subwatershed analysis will utilize previously completed watershed modeling to conduct subwatershed analyses for six high priority lakes that are closest to meeting state water quality standards or require protection due to high public use and declining water quality trends. This project will develop a long list of cost benefit ranked water quality best management practices based on concept design.

Washington
Recipient
Christ's Household of Faith d.b.a. Natura Farms
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,700
Fund Source

Install a new Reduced Pressure Zone (RPZ) valve on lines serving irrigation and stable feeding acres

Washington
Recipient
City of Oak Park Heights
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,122
Fund Source

Review integrity of contaminant sources in the DWSMA; public education

Washington
Recipient
St. Paul Regional Water Services
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source

Inventory wells and PCSI

Ramsey
Recipient
City of Woodbury
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$22,403
Fund Source

Purchase and install key cards on well houses for security. Educated public by providing DWSMA and wellhead protection information in City Update newsletter.

Washington
Recipient
City of St. Paul Park
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,653
Fund Source

Develop, print and send public education information to well owners and hazardous waste generator owners. Conduct wellhead plan evaluation and submit WHP Program Evaluation form to MDH

Washington
Recipient
City of Granite Falls
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,075
Fund Source

Install protective fence barrier around wells.

Yellow Medicine
Recipient
South Dutch Charlie Park; Cottonwood County
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source

Connect to Red Rock Rural Water System and seal well 213441

Cottonwood