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Recipient
Oyate Nipi Kte
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,815
To supplement previous work on preserving the Dakota language, which transmits history and cultural heritage, by defining 451 additional verbs.
Anoka
Hennepin
Redwood
Renville
Yellow Medicine
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
Minnesota State University-Mankato
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$260,000
Fund Source

MSU-Mankato Water Resources Center in the Mankato area will provide conventional pollutant monitoring at the following sites: Beauford Ditch, Big Cobb River, Blue Earth River, Le Sueur River (3), Little Cobb River, Minnesota River (2), Watonwan River.

Blue Earth
Brown
Cottonwood
Faribault
Freeborn
Jackson
Le Sueur
Martin
Steele
Waseca
Watonwan
Recipient
Redwood-Cottonwood Rivers Control Area Joint Powers Board
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$17,714
Fund Source

The overall goal of this project is to perform water quality monitoring duties to accomplish MPCA’s SWAG monitoring efforts at the four sites listed in Section IV of this application for the Middle Minnesota River stream sites selected in Renville, Redwood and Brown counties and allow for the assessment of aquatic life and aquatic recreation use for those reaches of the minor streams.

Blue Earth
Brown
Cottonwood
Le Sueur
McLeod
Nicollet
Ramsey
Renville
Rice
Scott
Sibley
Recipient
Water Resources Center, Minnesota State University- Mankato
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$80,546
Fund Source

The goal of this project is monitor, record, and submit the dataset necessary for assessment of aquatic recreation use with the Watonwan Watershed.

Blue Earth
Cottonwood
Faribault
Freeborn
Jackson
Martin
Watonwan
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
Minnesota State University, Mankato
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$69,438
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$260,324
Fund Source

This project goal is to conduct water chemistry monitoring at seventeen stream locations, to record and submit all data collected through this process, and to provide the information necessary for the calculation of water quality pollutant loads using the FLUX32 program.

Blue Earth
Faribault
Nicollet
Watonwan
Recipient
Sacred Heart Area Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,027
To provide professional development for two staff members at the national American Association for State and Local History Conference in St. Paul, September 17-20, 2014.
Renville
Recipient
Minnesota Military Museum
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,873
To provide professional development for two staff members at the national American Association for State and Local History Conference in St. Paul, September 17-20, 2014.
Morrison
Recipient
Benton SWCD
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
Fund Source

Little Rock Lake experiences severe algae blooms due to excess phosphorus and these blooms are the worst known regionally. The goal of this project is to reduce algae blooms, improve water clarity, and avoid risk of drinking water contamination. The project will result in installing one farmer nutrient management project , four cover crops, two lakeshore buffer strips, six septic systems that also demonstrated an imminent threat to public health, six erosion control projects , one wetland restored, and one feedlot runoff control system.

Benton
Morrison
Recipient
Renville SWCD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$279,057
Fund Source
Renville
Recipient
Area 2 - West Central Technical Service Area
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$240,000
Fund Source
Benton
Big Stone
Chippewa
Douglas
Kandiyohi
Meeker
Morrison
Pope
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Recipient
Renville SWCD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$114,400
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.

Renville
Recipient
Watonwan SWCD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$130,000
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.

Watonwan
Recipient
Wadena SWCD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source
Wadena
Recipient
Watonwan SWCD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000
Fund Source
Watonwan
Recipient
Watonwan County
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$247,575
Fund Source
Watonwan
Recipient
Area 2 - Red River Valley Conservation Service
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$240,000
Fund Source
Benton
Big Stone
Chippewa
Douglas
Kandiyohi
Meeker
Morrison
Pope
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Todd
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
Watonwan SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$130,000
Fund Source
Watonwan
Recipient
Watonwan SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000
Fund Source
Watonwan
Recipient
Morrison 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.

Morrison
Recipient
Renville 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.

Renville
Recipient
Renville SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$45,000
Fund Source
Renville
Recipient
Wadena SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source
Wadena
Recipient
Benton SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$175,000
Fund Source

These funds will be utilized in cost-share for landowners to install Agricultural Best Management Practices following Little Rock Lake TMDL Implementation Plan. Example of projects include Feedlot Improvements, Waste Storage Facilities, Erosion Control BMPs, Filter Strips and Streambank Stabilizations. An estimated 830 pounds per year of phosphorus and 800 tons of sediment will be reduced annually.

Benton
Morrison
Recipient
Watonwan SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000
Fund Source
Watonwan
Recipient
Renville SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$129,773
Fund Source
Renville
Recipient
Wadena SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$134,256
Fund Source
Wadena
Recipient
Renville SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$45,000
Fund Source
Renville
Recipient
Wadena SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source
Wadena
Recipient
Watonwan SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,865
Fund Source
Watonwan
Recipient
Morrison SWCD
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$134,810
Fund Source
Morrison
Recipient
Watonwan SWCD
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$21,500
Fund Source
Watonwan
Recipient
Area 2 - West Central Technical Service Area
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Fund Source
Benton
Big Stone
Chippewa
Douglas
Kandiyohi
Meeker
Morrison
Pope
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Recipient
Renville SWCD
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$38,700
Fund Source
Renville
Recipient
Renville SWCD
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$129,773
Fund Source
Renville
Recipient
Wadena SWCD
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$134,256
Fund Source
Wadena
Recipient
Watonwan SWCD
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,865
Fund Source
Watonwan
Recipient
Wadena SWCD
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,600
Fund Source
Wadena