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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
Anoka County
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,675
Fund Source

1.3 acre acquisition for Rice Creek Chain of Lakes Park Reserve

Anoka
Recipient
RESPEC
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,986
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to continue and finalize Hydrologic Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) watershed model construction and complete the calibration/validation process. The project will add representation of point source discharges to the model, compile flow and water quality data for the purposes of calibration and validation. The end result will be an HSPF watershed model that can readily be used to provide information to support conventional parameter TMDLs.

Mahnomen
Norman
Polk
Recipient
Minnesota Discovery Center
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,000
Aitkin
Crow Wing
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Anoka Conservation District
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$55,602
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to assess water quality in the following Anoka County waterbodies: Minard Lake, Pickerel Lake, Trott Brook, Seelye Brook, Cedar Creek, and the Rum River.

Anoka
Recipient
Lake County Soil & Water Conservation District
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,930
Fund Source

The primary goal of this project is to accurately collect surface water quality data to help support the MPCA’s Intensive Watershed Monitoring efforts in the Lake Superior North Watershed.

Lake
Recipient
International Water Institute
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$56,031
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to collect data, water chemistry and field parameters, which will be paired with biological data collected by the MPCA to assess water quality conditions at seven sites along targeted reaches within the Snake River Watershed and five sites in the Two River Watershed.

Kittson
Marshall
Pennington
Polk
Roseau
Recipient
City of St. Cloud
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$575
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.
Benton
Sherburne
Stearns
Recipient
Anoka County Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,117
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.
Anoka
Recipient
Roseau County Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,700
To provide professional development for one staff member at the national American Association for State and Local History Conference in St. Paul, September 17-20, 2014.
Roseau
Recipient
Chisago SWCD
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
Fund Source

Two large, actively eroding gullies located a few miles apart in Amador Township are contributing tremendous loads of phosphorus and sediment to the St. Croix River. One gully (Gully A) includes a major agricultural gully, severe road erosion, and sediment deposits of a foot or more thick in a state park. The second gully (Gully B) is over 4 feet deep, adjacent to a road, and is an annual problem. Stabilizing these two gullies will greatly reduce the sediment and phosphorus loading to the St. Croix River, which will help meet the reduction goal of the Lake St.

Chisago
Recipient
Chisago SWCD
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
Fund Source

Using a previous escarpment gully project as a model, the Chisago Soil and Water Conservation District will complete a similar inventory of actively eroding gullies along the Lower Sunrise River from the Kost Dam south to the confluence with the St. Croix, which includes the North Branch of the Sunrise, Hay Creek, and the Sunrise River main branch. There are major erosion issues along this stretch of river, no organized and efficient way to begin work in the area. The inventory report will provide the missing link.

Chisago
Recipient
Chisago SWCD
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
Fund Source

The Chisago Soil and Water Conservation District has been successful in implementing Best Management Practices in certain targeted locations within the county, including the prioritized and assessed areas of Chisago City, Lindstrom, and Center City. However, there are many areas that want to implement conservation projects but aren't within targeted areas. This award will empower community partners, especially lake associations, to award grants for rain gardens, shoreline buffers, and other worthwhile projects to improve water quality.

Chisago
Recipient
University of Minnesota
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
Fund Source

These funds are being used to systematically collect data and produce statistically valid estimates of the rate of soil erosion and tracking the adoption of high residue cropping systems in in the 67 counties with greater than 30% land in agricultural row crop production. Designed to establish a long term program in Minnesota to collect data and produce county, watershed, and state wide estimates of soil erosion caused by water and wind along with tracking adoption of conservation measures to address erosion.

Becker
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chippewa
Chisago
Clay
Cottonwood
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Houston
Isanti
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Mahnomen
Recipient
Chisago SWCD
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$220,500
Fund Source

The Chisago Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) has had such great success implementing gully stabilization projects along the St. Croix River escarpment that all of the current grant funding has been encumbered towards projects. Two large gully projects, one in the City of Taylors Falls and a second nearby in Interstate State Park, are lined up and ready to go as soon as funding is secured. Both of these gullies are large and have been actively eroding for many years, depositing large loads of sediment and phosphorus directly into the St. Croix River.

Chisago
Recipient
Mahnomen SWCD
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$137,500
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.

Mahnomen
Recipient
Benton SWCD
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$182,500
Fund Source

This project targets nutrient reductions within the Mayhew and Big Elk Lake watersheds. The Benton Soil and Water Conservation District will work with farmers in implementing a variety of conservation practices including, but not limited to cropland erosion control projects, riparian pasture management, and nutrient management and feedlot pollution control systems. These strategies were identified through Total Daily Maximum Load Studies.

Benton
Sherburne
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
Elk River Watershed Association
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$37,000
Fund Source

A completed Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) study has identified mid to late summer phosphorus loading as a significant stressor to lakes and streams within the Big Elk Lake watershed. While this comprehensive study serves its role as the unifying document that identifies pollutants and sources, further work is required in order to develop site-specific Best Management Practices, design these practices, and oversee their implementation in order to reach clean water goals.

Benton
Sherburne
Recipient
Chisago SWCD
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
Fund Source

Goose, East and West Rush Lakes are not meeting state water quality standards due to excessive phosphorus. These are three of the worst lakes in Chisago County in terms of water quality, yet also some of the most heavily used lakes for recreation. The quality of the water in the St. Croix River is directly influenced by the poor quality water leaving East Rush, West Rush, and Goose Lakes.

Chisago
Recipient
Benton SWCD
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,600
Fund Source

The Benton County Water Plan advisory committee has the goal of protecting groundwater resources in Benton County. One of the methods identified is to seal unused wells. In 2013, Benton Soil and Water Conservation District completed an aggressive campaign to identify unused wells. We used several sources to locate potential wells, completed site visits for many wells and collected site information to assisting in prioritizing limited cost share resources.

Benton
Recipient
University of Minnesota
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
Fund Source

These funds are being used to systematically collect data and produce statistically valid estimates of the rate of soil erosion and tracking the adoption of high residue cropping systems in counties with greater than 30% land in agricultural row crop production. Designed to establish a long term program in Minnesota to collect data and produce county, watershed, and state wide estimates of soil erosion caused by water and wind along with tracking adoption of conservation measures to address erosion.

Becker
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chippewa
Chisago
Clay
Cottonwood
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Houston
Isanti
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Mahnomen
Recipient
Mahnomen SWCD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
Fund Source
Mahnomen
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
Lake SWCD
2018 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.

Lake
Recipient
Mahnomen 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.

Mahnomen
Recipient
Chisago SWCD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source
Chisago
Recipient
Mahnomen SWCD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,000
Fund Source
Mahnomen
Recipient
Chisago SWCD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$157,721
Fund Source
Chisago
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
Minnesota Discovery Center
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Aitkin
Crow Wing
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Chisago SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$105,000
Fund Source

The Mallery Jerseys dairy farm is critically located along the bluff of the St. Croix River escarpment and drains directly to the St. Croix River. In 2018, a Comprehensive Nutrient Management Plan was completed and identified a number of additional practices that should be implemented to improve the water quality of the St. Croix River. The proposed practices will reduce the phosphorus and nitrogen by 76 pounds (83%)and 265 pounds (85%) respectively.

Chisago
Recipient
Benton SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$456,500
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to achieve a 10% reduction in overall sediment discharge to the Mississippi River from the Northeast St. Cloud Drainage Area by installing one regional underground stormwater detention and treatment facility in partnership with a Neighborhood Redevelopment Project. The project will have over 16,000 cubic feet of water storage capacity treating 35 acres of stormwater runoff and is modeled to reduce sediment by 4.5 tons, which is 10% of the sediment reduction goal for this drainage area.

Benton
Recipient
Chisago SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
Fund Source

A large, actively eroding gully has existed on the campus of Parmly, a senior living complex in Chisago City, for at least 50 years. The gully is on the banks of Green Lake, which is at high risk for becoming impaired in the near future. The Parmly gully project is identified as a source of untreated stormwater and phosphorus loading in the Chisago City urban subwatershed retrofit analysis report. Stabilization of the gully will provide a 20% reduction in phosphorus loading to Green Lake. The staff of Parmly is in full support of the project and a design is complete.

Chisago
Recipient
Chisago SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$90,000
Fund Source

The St. Croix River escarpment has been a focal point for the Chisago Soil and Water Conservation District over the past 8 years, and continues to be one of the leading areas of Chisago County in terms of phosphorus reduction projects to Lake St. Croix. Of the original inventory, 16 of the 36 gullies have been stabilized. This application includes the stabilization of 5 gullies. These projects will reduce the phosphorus loading to the St. Croix River by at least 50 pounds per year and sediment loading by at least 50 tons per year.

Chisago
Recipient
Anoka CD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000
Fund Source

This project will provide public outreach and engagement throughout Anoka County through a newly formed county-wide partner collaboration of Anoka County Watersheds, Cities and the Soil and Water Conservation District. The ultimate goal of this project is to enlist the active support of target audiences to achieve water management goals. This project is funded through the Anoka County allocation of the Watershed-Based Funding Pilot Program for the Seven County Metropolitan Area.

Anoka
Recipient
Anoka, City of
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$114,274
Fund Source

This project will stabilize eroding riverbanks on the Mississippi River through a partnership of the City of Anoka and the Anoka Conservation District. The project will result in the reduction of total suspended solids by at least 5 tons per year and phosphorus by 8 pounds per year to the Mississippi River. This project is funded through the Anoka County allocation of the Watershed-Based Funding Pilot Program for the Seven County Metropolitan Area.

Anoka
Recipient
Coon Creek WD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$191,973
Fund Source

This project will improve water quality to Coon and Pleasure Creeks through the installation of stormwater pond filter bench retrofits in the cities of Blaine and Coon Rapids. Filter bench media will consist of iron-enhanced sand and biochar media to maximize reduction of dissolved and bacterial pollutants. Public events will also be held to engage stakeholders during the project. This project is funded through the Anoka County allocation of the Watershed-Based Funding Pilot Program for the Seven County Metropolitan Area.

Anoka
Recipient
Sunrise River WMO
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$156,750
Fund Source

This multifaceted project will provide education and install practices to improve water quality in the Sunrise River Watershed. This will be accomplished by: 1) retrofitting stormwater basins and treating stormwater through swales and/or rain gardens to reduce nutrients and sediment to Coon and Martin Lakes, 2) surveying carp populations and developing a Linwood Lake carp feasibility study and management plan, and 3) increasing lakeshore stewardship projects on Typo, Coon, Fawn, Pet, Linwood, Island Lakes through environmental education about water quality.

Anoka