All Projects

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Recipient
Zumbro Watershed Partnership Inc.
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$81,122
Fund Source

The MPCA has identified 13 stream sites in the watershed to characterize watershed water quality. This project will supplement and complement the identification of the top 50 sites in the watershed that are contributing to water impairment and also help in identification of priority watersheds in the re-write of the watershed comprehensive plan. Water samples and field measurements will be collected at each monitoring location ranging from baseline events to high flow events.

Dodge
Goodhue
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
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
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
Zumbro Watershed Partnership
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$57,975
Fund Source

The Zumbro River Watershed Pollutant Load Monitoring Network (WPLMN) project will continue existing efforts to calculate seasonal pollutant loads for the Root River. The Zumbro Watershed Partnership (ZWP) along with Olmsted County Environmental Services will assist the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) with water quality monitoring and pollutant load calculations of four sub-watershed sites. Approximately 50 grab samples per site (total of 200) between ice-out and October 31 of 2016 and 2017 will be collected along with field measurements and observations.

Olmsted
Wabasha
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
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
Area 3 - Technical Service Area
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$240,000
Fund Source
Aitkin
Carlton
Cook
Kanabec
Lake
Mille Lacs
Pine
St. Louis
Recipient
Carlton SWCD
2018 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.

Carlton
Recipient
Olmsted SWCD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$111,600
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.

Olmsted
Recipient
Carlton SWCD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Fund Source
Carlton
Recipient
Olmsted SWCD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000
Fund Source
Olmsted
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 3 - Technical Service Area
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$240,000
Fund Source
Aitkin
Carlton
Cook
Kanabec
Lake
Mille Lacs
Pine
St. Louis
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
Carlton SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$166,755
Fund Source
Carlton
Recipient
Carlton 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.

Carlton
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
Olmsted 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.

Olmsted
Recipient
Carlton SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Fund Source
Carlton
Recipient
Olmsted SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000
Fund Source
Olmsted
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
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
Carlton SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Fund Source
Carlton
Recipient
Carlton SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$130,515
Fund Source
Carlton
Recipient
Olmsted SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$124,797
Fund Source
Olmsted
Recipient
Olmsted SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000
Fund Source
Olmsted
Recipient
Morrison SWCD
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$134,810
Fund Source
Morrison
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
Olmsted SWCD
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$21,500
Fund Source
Olmsted
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
Carlton SWCD
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$130,515
Fund Source
Carlton
Recipient
Carlton SWCD
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,300
Fund Source
Carlton
Recipient
Olmsted SWCD
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$124,797
Fund Source
Olmsted
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
Area 2 - West Central Technical Service Area
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$242,500
Fund Source
Benton
Big Stone
Chippewa
Douglas
Kandiyohi
Meeker
Morrison
Pope
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Recipient
Olmsted SWCD
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$134,156
Fund Source
Olmsted
Recipient
Morrison SWCD
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$133,914
Fund Source
Morrison
Recipient
Carlton SWCD
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,500
Fund Source
Carlton
Recipient
Morrison SWCD
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$21,500
Fund Source
Morrison
Recipient
BWSR
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,983,000
Fund Source

Phase X of the Camp Ripley Sentinel Landscape ACUB Partnership will utilize permanent conservation easements (BWSR RIM) to acquire 1,421-acres of high quality habitat in order to accomplish: PERMANENT PROTECTION of habitat corridors and buffers around public lands, PRESERVE open space within the CRSL, and conservation enhancement and restoration PRACTICES to protect soil and water quality and habitat corridor connectivity.

Cass
Crow Wing
Morrison