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Recipient
Crow Wing SWCD
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$310,000
Fund Source

The Crow Wing Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) proposes to complete stormwater best management practices (BMPs) that will reduce 40 pounds of phosphorus and 40 tons of sediment per year from entering Big Trout Lake. The Crow Wing County (CWC) Water Plan identifies Big Trout Lake as a priority lake to enhance due to its significant decline in water clarity and high ratio of impervious surface surrounding the lake. The 2015 CWC Assessors Property Tax Assessment reports that Big Trout has the second highest taxable land value in CWC at $4,200 per foot of shoreline.

Crow Wing
Recipient
BWSR with Morrison County SWCD
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,462,200
Fund Source

The project protect approximately 1090 acres of habitat for fish, game and wildlife with easements along the Mississippi and Crow Wing Rivers and tributaries. Protection will reduce infringement and development and improve watershed function.

Cass
Crow Wing
Morrison
Recipient
Crow Wing County
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$31,000
Fund Source

Crow Wing County, in cooperation with the municipalities within the County, plans to continue its successful well sealing program that pays 50% of the cost to seal unused/abandoned wells up to a maximum of $1000 per well. The amount of funding requested is $31,000 which is estimated to allow for the sealing of 80-100 wells. From 2012 to 2015, Crow Wing County sealed 65 wells as part of an earlier MDH well sealing grant from the Clean Water Fund. Priority will be given to wells located in or near existing wellhead protection areas.

Crow Wing
Recipient
Crow Wing County SWCD
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$48,450
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,326
Fund Source

The project will include lake monitoring on seventeen lakes found in the Mississippi River - Brainerd watershed in East Central Crow Wing County (CWC). The project will be conducted in an effort to gain data on these data-deficient lakes. One of the goals of the CWC Local Comprehensive Water Plan (CWP) is to establish a countywide Comprehensive Monitoring Plan (CMP). Surface water assessment monitoring will enable state 303(d) and 305(b) assessments and provide a better understanding of these lakes.

Aitkin
Crow Wing
Recipient
Sibley County
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$44,587
Fund Source

The goal of the High Island Creek Watershed Pollutant Load Monitoring project is to assist the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) with meeting the objectives of the Watershed Pollutant Load Monitoring Network (WPLMN). This will be accomplished by providing staff support throughout fiscal years 2016 and 2017 to conduct water chemistry monitoring at two specified stream locations from ice out through October 31 capturing snow melt, rainfall events and base flow conditions.

Sibley
Recipient
RESPEC
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$39,967
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to refine the segmentation, extend the simulation period, and recalibrate an existing Hydrologic Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) watershed model for the Rum River Watershed.

Aitkin
Anoka
Benton
Chisago
Crow Wing
Isanti
Kanabec
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Sherburne
Recipient
Anoka CD
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$60,000
Fund Source

Lake George is the premier recreational lake in Anoka County with above average water quality, a vibrant fishery, and a large regional park and beach that is among the most utilized in the county. Located in northwestern Anoka County within the Upper Rum River Watershed Management Organization (URRWMO), the Lake George Improvement District (LGID) was formed to tend to the lake's diminishing water quality and problematic invasive species.

Anoka
Recipient
BWSR
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,544,000
Fund Source

The Clean Water Fund (CWF) and Outdoor Heritage Fund (OHF) were used together to secure easements on buffer areas. 71 easements have been recorded for a total of 1,083.9 acres and are reported in the output tables for the final report (acre total does not include Clean Water Fund acres). The total acreage from both CWF and OHF sources for recorded easements is 2,105.0 acres. Only the OHF acres are being reported in this final report to be consistent with the approved accomplishment plan.

Brown
Clay
Dodge
Jackson
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Martin
Meeker
Mower
Nicollet
Nobles
Redwood
Renville
Rock
Sibley
Stearns
Wilkin
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Morrison Soil and Water Conservation District
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
Fund Source

Phase 1 of this project is primarily geared towards project planning and coordination among project partners, developing an initial civic engagement strategic plan, holding a watershed kick-off meeting, and gathering and summarizing available water quality data.

Benton
Crow Wing
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Stearns
Todd
Recipient
Leech Lake Area Watershed Foundation
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$950,000
Cass
Crow Wing
Recipient
Anoka Conservation District
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,000
Fund Source

This project will focus on Watershed Restoration and Protetion Strategy (WRAPS) and Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) report development for the Rum River Watershed, which includes Mille Lacs Lake (the second largest lake in Minnesota) and the Rum River of which Mille Lacs Lake is the headwaters. The project will produce a plan that partners and citizens will be able to implement, a framework for citizen engagement, and a set of watershed management activities that will achieve water quality standards for all impairments within the watershed.

Aitkin
Anoka
Benton
Chisago
Crow Wing
Isanti
Kanabec
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Sherburne
Recipient
Wenck Associates, Inc.
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$24,940
Fund Source

This project will develop Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) allocations and complete a final draft TMDL report for the five lake impairments listed for the South Fork Crow River Watershed.

Carver
Hennepin
Kandiyohi
McLeod
Meeker
Renville
Sibley
Wright
Recipient
Todd County Soil and Water Conservation District
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,877
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to conduct water quality monitoring at the ten lakes within the Todd County portions of the Mississippi River Brainerd and the one lake within the Todd County portion of the Mississippi River Sartell. Sampling will be done once per month between May 2016 and September 2016 and then again once per month May 2017 through September 2017.

Crow Wing
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