All Projects

20 Results for
Recipient
Itasca SWCD
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$141,000
Fund Source

This project is the first step toward a regional based implementation approach to reduce phosphorus and total suspended solids in the 12 cities on the Mississippi River. By the time this project is approved, a stormwater retrofit analysis will be completed for the cities, and the MHB will be discussing with them a strategic way to implement the study on a regional scale. By funding this project, you are encouraging the future implementation in a strategic and organized process.

Itasca
Recipient
Itasca County Soil and Water Conservation District
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,365
Fund Source

"This project will meet the following goals: develop, implement, and evaluate the impacts civic engagement outcomes for the Big Fork River Watershed; create a citizen understanding of the Watershed Restoration & Protection Strategy (WRAPS) and Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) process and the role citizens and stakeholders can play in attaining water quality restoration and protection; provide opportunities for citizens and stakeholders to assist local partners and state agencies in developing priorities for restoration as well projects to accomplish protection of high quality waters; and

Itasca
Koochiching
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300,000
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300,000
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
Fund Source

The Minnesota DNR and the Minnesota Forest Resources Council work with forest landowners, managers and loggers to implement a set of voluntary sustainable forest management guidelines that include water quality best management practices (BMPs) to ensure sustainable habitat, clean water, and productive forest soils, all contributing to healthy watersheds. This project will monitor the implementation of these forest management guidelines and BMPs on forested watersheds in MN.

Aitkin
Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Carlton
Cass
Clearwater
Cook
Crow Wing
Fillmore
Goodhue
Houston
Hubbard
Isanti
Itasca
Kanabec
Koochiching
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Mahnomen
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pine
Roseau
Sherburne
St. Louis
Stearns
Todd
Wabasha
Wadena
Winona
Recipient
Itasca County Soil and Water Conservation District
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,279
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$31,501
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$13,950
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,320
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$29,988
Fund Source

Itasca SWCD will work with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency as a collaborative effort to monitor the Big Fork River near Bigfork at State Highway 6 and Big Fork River near Craigsville at State Highway 6. Itasca Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) staff will strive to capture the peak, rising, and falling limbs of the hydrograph for spring run-off and significant storm events as well as base flow samples. Itasca SWCD staff will utilize local rain gauge readers, storm tracking weather services, and historical stage data to aid in making monitoring judgments.

Itasca
Koochiching
Recipient
Itasca SWCD
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$34,000
Fund Source

Itasca County is about to begin their water plan update process, which will be finished in 2017. This plan will be watershed protection oriented following a similar format to what Crow Wing County has done. We are currently in the process of have lake screening reports completed for 38 Itasca County lakes, and we would like to continue this program to add reports for an additional 34 lakes.

Itasca
Recipient
Upper Minnesota River Watershed District
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$228,013
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to develop a Watershed Restoration and Protection Plan (WRAPS) to be used at the local level. It will increase the number of citizens participating in education and outreach events; foster information and idea exchange around watershed issues through relationships and social networks; involve community members in crafting civic engagement activities/plans in which they feel ownership and desire to implement; and promote awareness, concern, and watershed stewardship to community organizations/institutions.

Big Stone
Chippewa
Lac qui Parle
Stevens
Swift
Traverse
Recipient
Emmons & Oliver Resources (EOR)
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,329
Fund Source

This project will address United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) comments on the Preliminary Draft Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) study and Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) comments on the pre-public notice draft Watershed Restoration & Protection Strategy (WRAPS) report, and produce Public Notice Draft TMDL study and Public Notice Draft WRAPS report ready for public review and comment.

Big Stone
Grant
Otter Tail
Stevens
Traverse
Recipient
Red River Watershed Management Board
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
Fund Source

This project is for Minnesota Legislative Clean Water Fund funding to engage citizens in local watershed monitoring, to work with regional partners to promote understanding and protection of watersheds, and to organize and facilitate gathering of scientific data all for the benefit of water quality in the Red River Basin.

Becker
Beltrami
Big Stone
Clay
Clearwater
Grant
Kittson
Mahnomen
Marshall
Norman
Otter Tail
Pennington
Polk
Red Lake
Roseau
Stevens
Traverse
Wilkin
Recipient
International Water Institute
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$523,135
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$288,451
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$201,398
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$243,164
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$243,164
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$463,456
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$268,352
Fund Source

The International Water Institute (IWI) will monitor 42 sites (3 basin, 12 major watershed, and 27 subwatershed) in the Red River and Upper Mississippi River Basins intensively during the contract period. There will also be 5 sites in the Red River Basin where mercury samples will be collected and sent to Minnesota Department of Health for analysis. The IWI will collect water samples across the range of flow conditions targeting sample collection at times of moderate to high flow.

Beltrami
Cass
Grant
Itasca
Kittson
Marshall
Norman
Otter Tail
Pennington
Polk
Red Lake
Traverse
Wilkin
Recipient
Buffalo-Red River Watershed District
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$19,860
Fund Source

The purpose of this project is to improve understanding of primary productivity in the Red River and the diversity and population structure of the algal communities occurring along the river system. This will be accomplished through taxonomic identification of periphyton and phytoplankton assemblages necessary for characterizing responses to nutrient gradients along the Red River of the North.

Becker
Beltrami
Clay
Clearwater
Douglas
Grant
Kittson
Mahnomen
Marshall
Norman
Otter Tail
Pennington
Polk
Pope
Red Lake
Roseau
Stevens
Traverse
Wilkin
Recipient
RESPEC
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$99,991
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to construct, calibrate, and validate a watershed model using the Hydrological Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) model for the Upper/Lower Red Lake Watershed. The contractor will produce an HSPF model that can readily be used to provide information to support conventional parameter Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Studies. The model will generate predicted output for hydrology, sediment, nutrients, and dissolved oxygen that is consistent with observed data.

Beltrami
Clearwater
Itasca
Koochiching
Recipient
City of Bovey
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,900
Fund Source

Inspect well, televise casing

Itasca
Recipient
Wildview Lodge Resort
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,400
Fund Source
Construct new well; Seal existing well
Itasca
Recipient
City of Nashwauk
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000
Fund Source

Seal unused well on private property

Itasca
Recipient
City of Browns Valley
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$543
Fund Source

Seal wells on private property; Educate businesses about proper tank management; Provide DWSMA map to MPCA tank units; Above ground storage tanks - updated rules and regulations; educate businesses; Provide DWSMA map to road authorities; WHP education and

Traverse
Recipient
City of Calumet
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,976
Fund Source

Remove storage tank; Install permanent WHP display at City Hall

Itasca
Recipient
Bois de Sioux WD
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$204,105
Fund Source

The Bois de Sioux Watershed District intends to begin a program to repair the legal ditches it owns and maintains for the purpose of improving water quality within the watershed and downstream receiving waters. The intent of this effort is to complete a pilot project to a legal ditch system that is in disrepair and use it as an example to educate landowners along other legal ditches on the importance of water quality. This pilot project consists of the construction of berms and side inlet culverts for sediment control along Traverse County Ditch #17 (TCD 17) and its single branch (B1) .

Traverse
Recipient
RESPEC
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$68,505
Fund Source

This project will extend the simulation period for the Hydrological Simulation Program - FORTRAN (HSPF) models for the Grand Rapids, Brainerd, Crow Wing, Redeye, Long Prairie, Sartell, Sauk, St. Cloud, and Crow watersheds, and review and comment on the calibration.

Aitkin
Becker
Benton
Carlton
Carver
Cass
Crow Wing
Douglas
Hennepin
Hubbard
Itasca
Kandiyohi
McLeod
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Otter Tail
Pope
Sherburne
St. Louis
Stearns
Todd
Wadena
Wright
Recipient
RESPEC
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$71,525
Fund Source

This project will extend, calibrate, and validate watershed models using the Hydrological Simulation Program - FORTRAN (HSPF) watershed model for the Mississippi Headwaters, Leech Lake, Pine, and South Fork Crow Watersheds.

Aitkin
Becker
Beltrami
Carver
Cass
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Hennepin
Hubbard
Itasca
Kandiyohi
McLeod
Meeker
Renville
Sibley
Wright
Recipient
RESPEC
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$79,972
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to calibrate, and validate three watershed models using the Hydrological Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) model. The contractor will produce HSPF watershed models that can be further developed to provide information to support conventional parameter TMDLs. The contractor will clearly demonstrate that the models generate predicted output timeseries for hydrology, sediment, nutrients, and dissolved oxygen which are consistent with available sets of observed data.

Aitkin
Carlton
Itasca
Kanabec
Mille Lacs
Pine