All Projects

77 Results for
Recipient
Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,940,000
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 Riparian Buffer Easement Program targets creating buffers on riparian lands adjacent to public waters, except wetlands. Through the Reinvest in Minnesota Program (RIM) and in partnership with Soil and Water Conservation Districts and private landowners, permanent conservation easements are purchased and buffers established.

Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chisago
Cottonwood
Faribault
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Murray
Nobles
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pope
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Scott
Steele
Stevens
Wilkin
Recipient
Fillmore County Soil and Water Conservation District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$319,700
Fund Source

TMDL project in the Root River Watershed that will support surface water assessment, analysis of data, interpretation of southeast Minnesota's karst landscape, stressor identification, TMDL computation, source assessment, and implementation planning.

Dodge
Fillmore
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Winona
Recipient
City of Rosemount
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,959
Fund Source
Construct new observation well; convert test well to observation well; water monitoring equipment
Dakota
Recipient
City of Minneapolis
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000
Fund Source
Establish electronic newsletter to send to local government and general public
Hennepin
Recipient
City of Richfield Public Works
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source
Ed. materials for source owners and public ed.
Hennepin
Recipient
City of Rogers
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source
Geological study to evaluate the source water aquifers in the area of the City of Rogers
Hennepin
Recipient
City of Eden Prairie
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,638
Fund Source
Identify and map contaminants; public education
Hennepin
Recipient
City of Hastings
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,870
Fund Source
Verify contaminant source locations; update website
Dakota
Recipient
City of Plymouth
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source
Update contaminant source inventory; public education
Hennepin
Recipient
City of Robbinsdale
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,098
Fund Source
Public education ; Tank survey
Hennepin
Recipient
Lincoln Pipestone Rural Water System
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source
Training programs for LPRW staff ; data collection devices; update PCSI
Lincoln
Recipient
City of Plymouth
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source
Upgrade security at well
Hennepin
Recipient
Village Evangelical Free Church
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$671
Fund Source
Reconstruct the existing well
Hennepin
Recipient
St. Paul Regional Water Services
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,836
Fund Source
Phase 2 Whitaker Project: slope protection at Whitaker Pond
Ramsey
Recipient
Pine Bend Association
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,402
Fund Source
Construct a new well and seal existing well
Dakota
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
Multiple Local Government Units
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$370,573
Fund Source

Successful long-term treatment of sewage depends on a system capable of providing adequate treatment and effective on-going operation and maintenance. Clean Water Fund Subsurface Sewage Treatment System (SSTS) Program Enhancement and Inventory funds are used by counties to strengthen programs dedicated to SSTS ordinance management and enforcement. These funds are used for a variety of tasks required to successfully implement a local SSTS program including inventories, enforcement, and databases to insure SSTS maintenance reporting programs.

Anoka
Beltrami
Cass
Faribault
Le Sueur
Rice
Todd
Recipient
City of Orono
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$164,346
Fund Source

Stubbs Bay on Lake Minnetonka is impaired for excess nutrients due to phosphorus loading. This impairment results in nuisance algae blooms that limit the recreational use of this water body. As a part of its surface water management planning process, the City of Orono has identified projects to help improve the water quality of Stubbs Bay and Lake Minnetonka. The Stubbs Bay Ravine Stabilization project is one of the projects scheduled for completion in 2011.

Hennepin
Recipient
Greater Blue Earth River Basin Alliance
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$105,196
Fund Source

This project will identify priority management zones (PMZ), for the purposes of water quality restoration and protection, within the LeSueur River major watershed. This project is only one component of a larger effort in the LeSueur watershed to complete Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) studies while engaging citizens and landowners in land management planning.

Blue Earth
Faribault
Freeborn
Le Sueur
Steele
Waseca
Recipient
Minnesota Department of Agriculture
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$58,360
Fund Source

This project will complete a Acetochlor Impairment Response Report. This report will combine and coordinate information relating to actions being done in direct response to the acetochlor water quality impairments with those being done and support MDA’s on-going responsibility to assure pesticides are used in a manner that does not cause unreasonable adverse effects on the environment.

Blue Earth
Faribault
Freeborn
Le Sueur
Steele
Waseca
Recipient
Blue Earth County Soil and Water Conservation District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000
Fund Source

This project will provide additional monitoring data to be utilized in the watershed assessment process for the Le Sueur River Watershed Project. Monitoring will take place for an additional year at two sites along the Maple River.

Blue Earth
Faribault
Freeborn
Le Sueur
Steele
Waseca
Recipient
Pine County Soil and Water Conservation DIstrict
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$39,326
Fund Source

The Pine County SWCD project will collect complete sets of water quality data for the Kettle River and some of its tributaries and also collect complete sets of water quality data for six area lakes (Oak, Dago, Rhine, Elbow, Rock, and Lake Eleven).

Aitkin
Carlton
Kanabec
Pine
Recipient
Pipestone Soil and Water Conservation District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,130
Fund Source

This project will collect water quality data at eight stream sites in three of the MPCA targeted watersheds. The sites are located on Medary Creek, Flandreau Creek, Pipestone Creek (2), Split Rock Creek, Rock River, Poplar Creek and Chanarambie Creek. This project will also promote a citizens monitoring program and encourage individuals to participate in a monitoring program.

Lincoln
Murray
Nobles
Pipestone
Rock
Recipient
Rock County Soil and Water Conservation District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$29,103
Fund Source

This comprehensive water sampling program will assess the water quality of six sites: two main points on the Rock River, two main tributaries to the Rock River, and two points where streams leave the state (Mud and Beaver Creek) for a period of two years.

Lincoln
Murray
Nobles
Pipestone
Rock
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
LimnoTech
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,810
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$46,430
Fund Source

This project will complete a chloride management plan which will lay out a strategy for addressing chloride impacts to our surface waters for the 7-county metropolitan area. This chloride management plan will satisfy EPA requirements for impaired waters, address waters not yet listed, and develop a strategy to protect waters that are currently meeting the water quality standards.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Fortin Consulting
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$63,946
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$42,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
Fund Source

This project will provide the MPCA and all local partners in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area (TCMA) the information and tools necessary to improve and/or maintain water quality with respect to chloride for the 7-county metropolitan area during the winter maintenace period.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Emmons and Olivier Resources, Inc. (EOR)
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,911
Fund Source

This project will provide modeling services to support the completion of the Typo Lake and Martin Lake Excess Nutrients TMDL report. A Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) report quantifies pollutant levels, identifies sources of pollution, and proposes ways to bring water quality back to an acceptable level.

Anoka
Chisago
Isanti
Pine
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
Emmons and Olivier Resources, Inc.
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$95,999
Fund Source

This project will support the monitoring of reaches where there are data gaps, incorporate new data and relevant data, continue identification of pollutant sources, complete load duration curves, coordinate and encourage participation in stakeholder meetings. The information gathered during Phase IIB will be utilized towards the development of a Draft Restoration (TMDL) and Protection Plan (Plan).

Aitkin
Anoka
Benton
Carver
Chisago
Crow Wing
Dakota
Douglas
Hennepin
Isanti
Kanabec
Kandiyohi
Le Sueur
McLeod
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Nicollet
Pope
Ramsey
Renville
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
Stearns
Todd
Wright
Recipient
Wenck Associates, Inc.
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$146,988
Fund Source

This project will develop a watershed restoration plan that provides quantitative pollutant load reduction estimates and a set of pollutant reduction and watershed management strategies to achieve water quality standards for all impairments within the watershed. It will also an important framework for civic and citizen engagement and communication, which will contribute to long-term public participation in surface water protection and restoration activities throughout the watershed.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Sherburne
Washington
Wright
Recipient
Emmons and Olivier Resources, Inc.
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$53,000
Fund Source

This project will provide the monitoring of reaches where there are data gaps, incorporate new data and analyze relevant data, identify pollutant sources, hold a stakeholder meeting, and gather information towards the future development of a Draft Restoration (TMDL) and Protection Plan.

Aitkin
Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Carlton
Carver
Cass
Chisago
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Douglas
Hennepin
Hubbard
Isanti
Itasca
Kanabec
Kandiyohi
McLeod
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Otter Tail
Pope
Renville
Sherburne
Sibley
Stearns
Todd
Wadena
Wright
Recipient
Lincoln SWCD
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$184,210
Fund Source

Project partners play a vital role in the implementation of the Verdi Wellhead Protection Plan and have made this water source a priority in lowering nitrate levels. The aquifer used by the wells in the Verdi Well Field consists of a sand and gravel horizon about 30' thick which overlies clay-rich till. The geological sensitivity in all five of the Verdi wells is classified as "high".The Verdi Well Field supplies water to ten community water suppliers, 34 large rural users, and 1,126 rural hookups. Total population served by this water supply is about 7,500.

Lincoln
Recipient
Metropolitan Council
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$919,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$950,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$950,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$975,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$975,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$550,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,537,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$400,000
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$400,000
Fund Source

This program supports communities as they plan and implement projects that address emerging drinking water supply threats. It supports the exploration cost-effective regional and sub-regional solutions, leverages inter-jurisdictional coordination, and prevents overuse and degradation of groundwater resources.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Winnebago, City of
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$84,000
Fund Source

Construct wastewater treatment improvements to meet phosphorus discharge requirements

Faribault
Recipient
Winona County
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
Fund Source

The Winona County Well Sealing Costshare Program will utilize Clean Water Funds to speed water well sealing in a continuing effort to protect the groundwater aquifers used for drinking water in Southeast Minnesota. Since 1990, 1303 unused water supply wells have been sealed in Winona County with costs ranging from $500-$10,000+ per well.

Winona
Recipient
Bassett Creek Watershed Management Commission
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,000
Fund Source

Wirth Lake is located in Theodore Wirth Regional Park in the City of Golden Valley. The lake was listed as Impaired due to excessive phosphorus levels. In recent years water quality goals were met except during instances where seasonal overflows from Bassett Creek into Wirth Lake occurred.With one relatively simple project, the Bassett Creek Watershed Management Commission anticipates that the excess phosphorus problem will be resolved once and for all.

Hennepin
Recipient
Washington Conservation District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,618
Fund Source

This project will collect water quality data at Zavoral Creek over a two year period.

Anoka
Chisago
Isanti
Pine
Ramsey
Washington