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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
Fillmore Soil and Water Conservation District
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$92,464
Fund Source

This project will obtain spatial and long-term pollutant load information from the Root River watershed in Southeast Minnesota. To accomplish this, the Fillmore Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) will assist the MPCA with water quality monitoring and annual pollutant loading calculations. Approximately 25 grab samples will be collected/site/year at 5 sites within the Root River watershed (totaling 125 grab samples/year). Annual load calculations for each site will be determined using the FLUX32 model.

Dodge
Fillmore
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Winona
Recipient
Fillmore SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$186,106
Fund Source
Fillmore
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
Yellow Medicine SWCD
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$118,000
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.

Yellow Medicine
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
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
Fillmore SWCD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$102,000
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.

Fillmore
Recipient
Wadena SWCD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source
Wadena
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
Area 7 - Southeast SWCD Technical Support
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$240,000
Fund Source
Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Wadena SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source
Wadena
Recipient
Area 7 - Southeast SWCD Technical Support
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$242,500
Fund Source
Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Wadena SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$134,256
Fund Source
Wadena
Recipient
Wadena SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source
Wadena
Recipient
Yellow Medicine River WD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$814,603
Fund Source
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Yellow Medicine SWCD
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,100
Fund Source
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Yellow Medicine SWCD
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$128,866
Fund Source
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Area 7 - Southeast SWCD Technical Support
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Fund Source
Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Wadena SWCD
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$134,256
Fund Source
Wadena
Recipient
Wadena SWCD
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,600
Fund Source
Wadena
Recipient
Yellow Medicine SWCD
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
Fund Source
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Area 8 - North Central MN SWCDs JPB
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$242,500
Fund Source
Beltrami
Cass
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake of the Woods
Wadena
Recipient
Area 7 - Southeast SWCD Technical Support
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$242,500
Fund Source
Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Wadena SWCD
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$124,187
Fund Source
Wadena
Recipient
Fillmore SWCD
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$124,344
Fund Source
Fillmore
Recipient
Yellow Medicine SWCD
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$131,754
Fund Source
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Fillmore SWCD
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,500
Fund Source
Fillmore
Recipient
Yellow Medicine SWCD
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
Fund Source
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Area 5 - Southwest Prairie Technical Service Area
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$242,500
Fund Source
Cottonwood
Jackson
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
Murray
Nobles
Pipestone
Redwood
Rock
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Root River SWCD
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$17,000
Fund Source
Fillmore
Mower
Dodge
Houston
Olmsted
Olmsted
Recipient
Wadena SWCD
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,500
Fund Source
Wadena
Recipient
Yellow Medicine River WD
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$814,603
Fund Source
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Fillmore SWCD
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$133,670
Fund Source
Fillmore
Recipient
Yellow Medicine SWCD
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
Fund Source
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Fillmore SWCD
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,605
Fund Source
Fillmore
Recipient
Area 5 - Southwest Prairie Technical Service Area
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$242,500
Fund Source
Cottonwood
Jackson
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
Murray
Nobles
Pipestone
Redwood
Rock
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Area 7 - Southeast SWCD Technical Support
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$242,500
Fund Source
Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Area 8 - North Central MN SWCDs JPB
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$242,500
Fund Source
Beltrami
Cass
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake of the Woods
Wadena