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Recipient
Minnesota Department of Health (MDH)
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$303,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$365,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$390,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$390,000
Fund Source

The County Well Index (CWI) contains well and boring records wells within Minnesota; over 400,000 records. It is the principal source of well construction information and geologic interpretations of well records and also contains soil boring records, mineral exploration test hole records, and scientific/research test hole records.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Department of Health
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,200,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,200,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,700,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,100,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,100,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,100,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,100,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,150,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,150,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,020,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,020,000
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$744,717
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,291
Fund Source

The Drinking Water Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CEC) program identifies environmental contaminants for which current health-based standards currently do not exist or need to be updated, investigate the potential for human exposure to these chemicals, and develop guidance values for drinking water. Contaminants evaluated by CEC staff include contaminants that have been released or detected in Minnesota waters (surface water and groundwater) or that have the potential to migrate to or be detected in Minnesota waters.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Department of Health
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$105,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$105,000
Fund Source

The Lake Superior Beach Monitoring and Notification Program exists to test recreational beach water and notify the public if bacteria levels become unsafe. This project will expand the Beach Program to include additional outreach efforts, sanitary surveys and testing of new technologies to improve the Beach Program. Monitoring results will be used to inform the public, find the sources of bacterial contamination and address polluted runoff from improper waste disposal.

Cook
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Minnesota Department of Health
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$563,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$563,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$550,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300,000
Fund Source

Appropriations from the Clean Water Fund allow the Minnesota Department of Health to expand and improve the way groundwater and drinking water protection is implemented at the local level. In 2015, $300,000 was allocated to update wellhead protection areas within groundwater management areas. From 2016 onward, funding will be dedicated to the Groundwater Restoration and Protection Strategies (GRAPS) initiative which will provide groundwater and drinking water information and management strategies on a HUC 8 watershed scale.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Department of Health
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$275,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$800,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$800,000
Fund Source

The objective of this project is to build on previous efforts aimed at determining the public health risk due to virus contamination in Minnesota groundwater. The Minnesota Department of Health will examine the occurrence of viruses in non-disinfecting groundwater sources in Minnesota as well as evaluate the association between source water virus occurrence and community acute gastrointestinal illness.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Department of Health
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$750,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$400,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$400,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$325,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$325,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$325,000
Fund Source

This project aims to ensure private wells are a safe source of drinking water, are tested regularly, and water quality issues are addressed.

Statewide
Recipient
Multiple public water systems
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$113,000
2018 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 protects both public health and groundwater by assuring the proper sealing of unused wells.
Clean Water funds are being provided to well owners as a 50% cost-share assistance for sealing unused public water-supply wells.

Anoka
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Cook
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Faribault
Fillmore
Hennepin
Lyon
McLeod
Morrison
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Sherburne
Sibley
St. Louis
Stearns
Steele
Swift
Todd
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Winona
Wright
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
City of St. Louis Park
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source
Seal private wells within the DWSMA
Hennepin
Recipient
City of Brooklyn Park
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source
Seal monitoring wells and irrigation well
Hennepin
Recipient
City of Ortonville
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,959
Fund Source

Mail educational materials to property owners within the DWSMA; Presentation to local students about drinking water; Identify and seal unused wells within the DWSMA

Big Stone
Recipient
City of Richfield
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source

Install security cameras at the Richfield municipal wells

Hennepin
Recipient
Grandview Winery
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source

Construct a new well

Redwood
Recipient
Hillcrest Supper Club
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,065
Fund Source
Construct new well and well house; Seal existing well
Beltrami
Recipient
Hilltop Water Company
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source

Remove well tanks and equipment in pit; relocate new well equipment near wellhead; Build pump house over new equipment and wellhead; Plumbing, excavation, electrical; Fit, level and grade old pit

Washington
Recipient
Minnesota Correctional Facility - Stillwater
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source

Install a 10" casing and seal off access to F-I-G aquifer

Washington
Recipient
Moorhead Public Service
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,103
Fund Source
Install security camera at the South Buffalo Well Field; Install radio equipment at Moorhead City Hall and South Buffalo Well Field
Clay
Recipient
Our Savior's Lutheran Church
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,918
Fund Source

Construct a new well; rehabilitate old well

Sherburne
Recipient
City of Edina
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source
Develop a comprehensive PCSI database
Hennepin
Recipient
Owatonna Public Utilities
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source
Seal well #3
Steele
Recipient
City of Long Prairie
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,375
Fund Source

Seal wells; Inventory SSTS; Update website

Todd
Recipient
City of Staples
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,010
Fund Source

Install two monitoring wells

Todd
Recipient
City of Gilbert
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,422
Fund Source
Seal a test well; Remove three electrical transformers that contain PCB-s and are located within the IWMZ; Purchase enviroscape
St. Louis
Recipient
City of Worthington Public Utilities
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,305
Fund Source
Seal unused wells; investigate and seal well# 225914
Nobles
Recipient
City of Newport
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,474
Fund Source

Update PCSI

Washington
Recipient
City of Elko New Market
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,780
Fund Source
Create and distribute brochures on wells management and sealing; Survey unused or abandoned wellls on private property
Dakota
Recipient
City of Rosemount
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,901
Fund Source
Locate and determine the status of wells #4 and #5
Dakota
Recipient
City of Kinney
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,000
Fund Source
Remove two fuel tanks and two furnaces and replace them with one furnace that runs off propane
St. Louis
Recipient
City of Northfield
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,320
Fund Source

Update drawdown equipment; Inspect private wells within the DWSMA

Rice
Recipient
City of Iron Junction
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,813
Fund Source
Generator wiring and transfer switch
St. Louis
Recipient
Empire Township
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,371
Fund Source

Seal three 4 inch diameter wells in DWSMA; Seal one 6 inch diameter well in the DWSMA (216322)

Dakota
Recipient
City of Hampton
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,500
Fund Source
Locate well inside building
Dakota
Recipient
City of Lewiston
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source
Seal well
Winona
Recipient
Moorhead Public Service
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source
Video log well casings at South Buffalo well field
Clay
Recipient
City of Big Falls
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,065
Fund Source

Seal old municipal well

Koochiching
Recipient
City of Andover
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,506
Fund Source
Public education for owners of underground and above ground storage tanks; Public education for facilities with agricultural chemicals; Public education for private well owners
Anoka
Recipient
City of Center City
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,476
Fund Source
Public education (miscellaneous)
Chisago
Recipient
City of St. Cloud
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,750
Fund Source
Purchase, install and program water quality monitor at St. Cloud intake station
Stearns
Recipient
City of Baudette
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,000
Fund Source
Fence the two wells locations
Lake of the Woods
Recipient
City of Perham
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,950
Fund Source
Develop cost share program to implement Nitrogen BMP-s to help reduce nitrate
Otter Tail