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26 Results for
Recipient
Shell Rock River WD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$264,040
Fund Source
Freeborn
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
Freeborn SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$129,163
Fund Source
Freeborn
Recipient
Martin SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$118,757
Fund Source
Martin
Recipient
Dakota SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,000
Fund Source
Dakota
Recipient
Hubbard SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$130,743
Fund Source
Hubbard
Recipient
Dakota SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,000
Fund Source
Dakota
Recipient
Hubbard SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source
Hubbard
Recipient
Martin SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$35,000
Fund Source
Martin
Recipient
Freeborn SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
Fund Source
Freeborn
Recipient
Anoka Conservation District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$600,000
Fund Source

A direct appropriation of $400,000 in FY 2010 and $600,000 in FY2011 for the Anoka Conservation District (ACD) is for the metropolitan landscape restoration program for water quality and improvement projects in the seven-county metro area.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Mower SWCD
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$593,987
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$593,987
Fund Source
Dodge
Freeborn
Mower
Steele
Recipient
Greater Blue Earth River Basin Alliance
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$242,075
Fund Source

The nine member Counties and Soil and Water Conservation Districts of the Greater Blue Earth River Basin Alliance (GBERBA) will be able to enhance our effectiveness to provide elevated levels of technical assistance, education and outreach in the areas of urban stormwater, wellhead protection, nutrient management, conservation agronomy, drainage and agricultural best management practices to reduce nonpoint source pollution in the Blue Earth, Le Sueur and Watonwan River Watersheds.

Blue Earth
Cottonwood
Faribault
Freeborn
Jackson
Le Sueur
Martin
Waseca
Watonwan
Recipient
Multiple Local Government Units
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,436,888
Fund Source

Currently, there are approximately 5,050 feedlots with fewer than 300 animal units that need to come into compliance with State feedlot rules. Clean Water Feedlot Water Quality Management Grant funds are being used to provide financial assistance to landowners with feedlot operations less than 300 animal units in size and located in a riparian area or impaired watershed.

Anoka
Brown
Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Lyon
Mower
Nobles
Olmsted
Pope
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Wright
Recipient
Vermillion River Watershed JPO
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$380,000
Fund Source
Dakota
Recipient
Cass SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$598,115
Fund Source
Cass
Hubbard
Recipient
Bois de Sioux Watershed District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$130,106
Fund Source

The Mustinka River winds through five counties in west central Minnesota and empties into Lake Traverse, a border waters lake with excellent fishing and recreational opportunities. For several years, sections of the river have been impaired for turbidity due to too much soil/sediment eroding from the land and washing away into the water. Excess sediment degrades aquatic habitat
and feeds algae blooms.

Big Stone
Grant
Otter Tail
Stevens
Traverse
Wilkin
Recipient
SE SWCD Tech Support JPB
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$161,616
Fund Source

This project will assist farmers across Southeast Minnesota by providing guidance on management of nutrient sources including livestock manure, commercial fertilizers, and legumes. This project is important because excess nutrients and bacteria are causing negative impacts to the quality of waters. Two Nutrient Management Specialists will work one-on-one with farmers to develop 70 plans each year. Over time, it is anticipated that the number of new nutrient management plans will decrease as acres with plans increase.

Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Pomme de Terre River Association Joint Powers Board
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$257,610
Fund Source

The Pomme de Terre River watershed is located in west central Minnesota and occupies a portion of six counties. For many years surface water quality within the watershed has been a concern to local government, and in 1982 the Counties and SWCDs within the watershed area formed the Pomme de Terre River Association Joint Powers Board to begin addressing this issue. In 2002 the Pomme de Terre River was placed on the Impaired Waters list for turbidity.The project partners are collaborating to improve surface water quality within the watershed with a grant from the Clean Water Fund.

Big Stone
Douglas
Grant
Otter Tail
Stevens
Swift
Recipient
BWSR
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,895,000
Fund Source

The Reinvest in Minnesota (RIM) Reserve Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP) Partnership will accelerate the restoration and protection of approximately 4,620 acres of previously drained wetlands and associated upland native grassland wildlife habitat complexes via perpetual conservation easements. The goal of the RIM-WRP Partnership is to achieve the greatest wetland functions and values, while optimizing wildlife habitat on every acre enrolled in the partnership.

Big Stone
Blue Earth
Clay
Freeborn
Grant
Kandiyohi
Le Sueur
Mahnomen
Marshall
McLeod
Meeker
Murray
Norman
Otter Tail
Pope
Rice
Rice
Recipient
Multiple Local Government Units
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,357,221
Fund Source

Imminent Health Threat (IHT) systems are those that are discharging improperly treated human waste onto the ground surface or into surface waters. In addition to the potential water quality impacts, untreated sewage has the potential to introduce bacteria and viruses into the environment. When IHT systems are identified, county or city staff assist the homeowners through the process required to bring their systems into compliance with the septic ordinance.

Beltrami
Big Stone
Chippewa
Chisago
Cook
Dodge
Jackson
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Lincoln
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Pennington
Pipestone
Rice
Scott
Stearns
Recipient
Greater Blue Earth River Basin Alliance
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
Fund Source

The Greater Blue Earth River Basin Alliance (GBERBA), a nine County/SWCD JPO has identified buffers as a basin priority. This initiative will work towards the goal of identifying all DNR protected shoreland in the GBERBA counties without a 50 foot vegetative buffer. Buffer strips protect surface and groundwater from a multitude of pollutants. During stormwater run off events buffers can remove between 50 and 100 percent of nutrients, pesticides, pathogens, and sediment. The estimated sediment reduction for this project is 756 tons per year prevented from entering our waters.

Blue Earth
Cottonwood
Faribault
Freeborn
Jackson
Le Sueur
Martin
Waseca
Watonwan
Recipient
Dakota County
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$576,447
Fund Source
Dakota
Recipient
Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,300,000
Fund Source

This program is a part of a comprehensive clean water strategy to prevent sediment and nutrients from entering our lakes, rivers, and streams; enhance fish and wildlife habitat; protect groundwater and wetlands. Specifically the Wellhead Protection Conservation Easement program is targeted to protect drinking water through the Reinvest in Minnesota Program (RIM).

Cottonwood
Grant
Otter Tail
Rock
Recipient
BWSR
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,187,000
Fund Source

Four RIM easements have been recorded on 527.7 acres and are reported in the output tables.

DNR closed on the 99-acre Plantagenet Lake Aquatic Management Area in Hubbard County on 8/30/2022. The county board was notified and is supportive.

Becker
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Itasca
Recipient
Buffal-Red River Watershed District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$253,229
Fund Source

Wolverton Creek is a 25 mile long tributary to the Red River of the North. Its watershed drains approximately 105 square miles located in Wilkin and western Clay Counties. Wolverton Creek is the outlet for numerous ditch systems and natural drainage in the area and is a significant contributor of sediment to the Red River. The City of Moorhead and other downstream communities obtain drinking water from the Red River. Since 85% of Moorhead's drinking water comes from the Red River, high turbidity results in
higher treatment costs for their drinking water system.

Clay
Grant
Otter Tail
Wilkin