Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources

Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources

520 Lafayette Road North
St. Paul, MN 55155

651- 296-3767
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Related Projects

Greenprinting for Wetland Restoration and Mining Reclamation
Recipient: 
Blue Earth County and Watonwan County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$108,000
Source: 
Clean Water Fund

This project is a collaboration between Blue Earth and Watonwan County. The two counties will share information, ideas and resources as they complete mining reclamation and wetland management plans to include in their local water management plans and comprehensive land use plans.

Halvorson Streambank Restoration
Recipient: 
Pennington SWCD
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$34,375
Source: 
Clean Water Fund

The Thief River is impaired for low dissolved oxygen and turbidity. These impairments affect fish spawning habitat, recreation and the drinking water supply of Thief River Falls.

Hay Creek/Stinking Lake Sediment Reduction Project -- Continuation
Recipient: 
Becker Soil and Water Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$16,395
Source: 
Clean Water Fund

This project is concentrated in the Hay Creek Watershed, a 24-square-mile area in Becker County that features several high-quality lakes including Stinking Lake, valued for high-quality waterfowl habitat and flood water storage. Protecting the lake has been a local priority.

Hennepin - Legislative Directed Funds
Recipient: 
Hennepin County
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$500,000
Source: 
Clean Water Fund

The law also included a direct appropriation of $500,000 in FY2010 to Hennepin County for riparian restoration and stream bank stabilization in the county's 10 primary stream systems.

Imminent Public Health Threat Inventory - Mower County, Phase III
Recipient: 
Mower County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$99,995
Source: 
Clean Water Fund

Mower County has completed the first phase of their county-wide imminent public health threat inventory and are currently in the process of phase two. This project will fund the third phase which will allow Mower County to inventory over 1,400 sites and remove an anticipated total of 230 imminent public health threats from discharging to local waters or to ground surface.

Improving Colby Lake
Recipient: 
South Washington Watershed District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$156,645
Source: 
Clean Water Fund

In partnership with the Washington Conservation District and City of Woodbury, this project will improve water quality in Colby Lake through implementing 30 priority small-scale water quality conservation practices. Projects may include bioretention, vegetated swales and pond modifications.

Improving Drainage Water Quality in the Middle Fork Crow River Watershed
Recipient: 
Middle Fork Crow River Watershed District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$43,505
Source: 
Clean Water Fund

The Crow River is known to be one of the highest nutrient loading watersheds in the Upper Mississippi River Basin. Years of water quality monitoring confirm a variety of water quality issues in drainage ditches.

Improving the Water Quality along Connelly Ditch
Recipient: 
Wilkin Soil and Water Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$294,506
Source: 
Clean Water Fund

This water quality improvement project involves the retrofit of county ditch #31 also known as Connelly Ditch. The capacity of the ditch is inadequate and there is a need to reduce sediment and peak flows to it.

Improving the water quality of the Chisago County Chain of Lakes
Recipient: 
Chisago Soil and Water Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$238,640
Source: 
Clean Water Fund

In partnership with the Chisago Lakes Lake Improvement District, subwatershed assessments for the communities of Center City, Lindstrom and Chisago City, all within the Chisago Lakes Chain of Lakes watershed have been completed. The tourism economy of these communities depends on the Chisago Lakes Chain of Lakes.

Improving water quality in the Yellow Medicine River
Recipient: 
Yellow Medicine Soil and Water Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$30,595
Source: 
Clean Water Fund

Agricultural drain tiles with surface intakes are considered a significant delivery mechanism of nutrients to Minnesota River. Protecting those surface water inlets can reduce the direct path those nutrients have to the river. In addition, in agricultural fields with subsurface drainage, leached nitrate creates elevated nitrate levels in tile drainage water.