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Ann River Watershed TMDL Project-Phase II
Recipient: 
Kanabec County Soil and Water Conservation District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$112,265
Source: 
Clean Water Fund

This project will be a complete TMDL report for the Biota and Bacteria (E. coli) impairments for the Ann River Watershed. The water bodies associated with these impairments will then be removed from the MPCA’s impaired waters list, and implementation activities to restore the water bodies will begin.

Buffalo River Watershed Approach Plan 2
Recipient: 
Buffalo-Red River Watershed District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$249,968
Source: 
Clean Water Fund

The Buffalo River Watershed Pilot Project is one of two pilots in Minnesota designed to develop a watershed approach for managing Minnesota’s surface waters. The goal of this project is to develop a plan that will guide surface water quality management throughout the watershed.

Carnelian Marine St. Croix Watershed District "10" Impaired Lakes TMDL Project-Phase III
Recipient: 
Washington Conservation District
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$103,598
Source: 
Clean Water Fund

Continued TMDL project to support next phases associated with completion of TMDL's for ten lakes in the Carnelian Marine Saint Croix Watershed District (CMSCWD). Ten lakes are; East Boot, Fish, Goose, Hay, Jellum’s, Long, Loon, Louise, Mud and South Twin.

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Change and Resilience in Boreal Forests in Northern Minnesota
Recipient: 
University of Minnesota
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$75,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$75,000
Source: 
Environment & Natural Resources Trust Fund

Locate areas where boreal tree species may persist in a warmer climate, assess whether temperate species can replace boreal species and whether invasive species may interfere with climate change adaptation.

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Change and Resilience in Boreal Forests in Northern Minnesota
Recipient: 
University of Minnesota
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$75,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$75,000
Source: 
Environment & Natural Resources Trust Fund

Locate areas where boreal tree species may persist in a warmer climate, assess whether temperate species can replace boreal species and whether invasive species may interfere with climate change adaptation.

Chisago Lakes Lake Improvement District TMDL Project
Recipient: 
Chisago Soil and Water Conservation District
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$196,600
Source: 
Clean Water Fund

TMDL project in the Chisago Lakes Lake Improvement District that will develop a watershed based plan and provide strategies for water quality and aquatic ecosystem management, restoration, and protection within Sunrise River Watershed. This project will also aid in understanding the Phosphorus loading to Lake St. Croix.

Statewide
Compilation of Surficial Geologic Mapping and Associated Databases to Support Watershed Modeling
Recipient: 
University of Minnesota
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$44,994
Source: 
Clean Water Fund

This project will develop a surficial geology shapefile (map) for part of the State of Minnesota, by modifying and joining smaller existing, but separate, surficial geology maps. The resulting internally consistent geographic information system (GIS) layer will be used to support the hydrologic parameterization of Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) watershed models.

Coon Creek Watershed District Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy
Recipient: 
Coon Creek Watershed District
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$252,200
Source: 
Clean Water Fund

This project will provide the MPCA, CCWD, and all other stakeholders the information and tools necessary to improve the water quality within Coon Creek Watershed District. The improvements will take place using targeted activities throughout the watershed to reduce the primary biological and chemical stressors.

Cooperative Habitat Research in Deep Lakes
Recipient: 
MN DNR
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$825,000
Source: 
Environment & Natural Resources Trust Fund

Understanding, predicting, and responding to the consequences of large ecological drivers of change on water quality, habitats and fish populations in cold-water Minnesota lakes.

Deer Creek Watershed Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Final Report and Implementation Plan
Recipient: 
Barr Engineering Company
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$86,020
Source: 
Clean Water Fund

Deer Creek has been identified as an impaired water body. This project will quantify the reductions in pollutant loading that would be necessary to bring water quality in the creek to an acceptable level. The project also includes collection of any additional data needed for stream channel modeling scenarios.

Deer Creek/Nemadji River Turbidity TMDL
Recipient: 
Carlton County Soil and Water Conservation District
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$234,435
Source: 
Clean Water Fund

This project will result in the development of a total maximum daily load (TMDL) for turbidity for Deer Creek and the Nemadji River, and will also define which reaches of the Nemadji basin may be meeting standards for turbidity.

Developing Targeting Tools for the East Branch of the Blue Earth River
Recipient: 
Faribault Soil and Water Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$37,574
Source: 
Clean Water Fund

The East Branch Blue Earth River is currently negatively impacted and has been shown to contribute disproportionately high sediment loads to the Minnesota River. With limited funds available for implementing conservation practices, targeting tools to pinpoint locations where conservation practices have the highest effectiveness are increasingly important.

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Evaluation of Biomass Harvesting Impacts on Minnesota’s Forests
Recipient: 
University of Minnesota
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$175,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$175,000
Source: 
Environment & Natural Resources Trust Fund

Project assesses environmental impacts of biomass harvests for energy on Minnesota’s forests. Results will quantify the impacts on soil nutrients, native forest vegetation, invasive species spread, and long-term tree productivity.

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Evaluation of Biomass Harvesting Impacts on Minnesota’s Forests
Recipient: 
University of Minnesota
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$175,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$175,000
Source: 
Environment & Natural Resources Trust Fund

Project assesses environmental impacts of biomass harvests for energy on Minnesota’s forests. Results will quantify the impacts on soil nutrients, native forest vegetation, invasive species spread, and long-term tree productivity.

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Event-Based Stream Sampling in Northeastern Minnesota
Recipient: 
University of Minnesota-Duluth (NRRI)
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$148,869
Source: 
Clean Water Fund

This project will generate water quality data for 10 stream locations MPCA designated for their 2012 and 2013 open-water sampling seasons (8 by NRRI-UMD and 2 via subcontract to the North St. Louis SWCD).

HSPF for the Lake of the Woods Major Watershed
Recipient: 
RESPEC
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$89,967
Source: 
Clean Water Fund

This project will construct, calibrate, and validate an HSPF watershed model for the Lake of the Woods River watershed. The consultants will produce HSPF watershed models that can readily be used to provide information to support conventional parameter TMDLs.

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HSPF Model Framework Development for the Big Fork River and Little Fork River Watersheds
Recipient: 
RESPEC
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$174,579
Source: 
Clean Water Fund

This project will construct, calibrate, and validate two HSPF watershed models. The consultant will produce HSPF models that can readily be used to provide information to support conventional parameter Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDLs) at the Big Fork River and Little Fork River watersheds.

HSPF Model Framework Development for the Mustinka River and Bois de Sioux River Watersheds.
Recipient: 
Emmons and Olivier Resources, Inc. (EOR)
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$135,000
Source: 
Clean Water Fund

This project will complete the development of two watershed HSPF models for the Mustinka River and Bois de Sioux River watersheds. These calibrated and validated executable models will simulate hydrology at the 12-digit HUC subbasin scale.

HSPF Model Framework Development for the Sauk River, Crow River, and South Fork Crow River
Recipient: 
RESPEC
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$96,618
Source: 
Clean Water Fund

This project will support construction of three watershed framework models built using the Hydrologic Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF). These executable models will simulate hydrology at the subbasin scale. An HSPF model will be built for each of three major watersheds: the Crow River/North Fork Crow River, the South Fork Crow River, and the Sauk River.

HSPF Model Framework Development for the Thief River Watershed, Phases 1 and 2: Model Framework Development and Final Calibration and Validation of Hydrology
Recipient: 
Houston Engineering
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$67,996
Source: 
Clean Water Fund

This project will continue to develop, and calibrate/validate the hydrology of an HSPF watershed model for the Thief River watershed. The consultant will add representation of point source discharges to the model. The consultant will compile flow data for the purposes of calibration and validation. An initial hydrologic calibration will be performed and submitted for approval.

HSPF Model Framework Development, Resegmentation, Timeseries Extension, and Recalibration and Validation of Existing Models
Recipient: 
RESPEC
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$214,963
Source: 
Clean Water Fund

This project will complete spatial and temporal revisions of 6 HSPF models, the recalibration and validation of 7 watershed HSPF models, and the revision of the drainage network and point source representation of the Pomme de Terre HSPF model.

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HSPF Modeling for the Upper Mississippi Mainstem and Rum Rivers
Recipient: 
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$253,710
Source: 
Clean Water Fund

The goal of this project is to construct, calibrate, and validate five Hydrologic Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) watershed models. The outcome will be HSPF models that can readily be used to provide information to support conventional parameter TMDLs.

HSPF Modeling: Mustinka and Bois de Sioux Watersheds Phase 3
Recipient: 
Emmons & Olivier Resources
Source: 
Clean Water Fund

This project will finalize the HSPF watershed model construction and complete the calibration/validation process. The consultant will produce an HSPF watershed model that can readily be used to provide information to support conventional parameter TMDLs.

HSPF Modeling: Red Lake River and Clearwater River Watersheds
Recipient: 
RESPEC
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$99,986
Source: 
Clean Water Fund

This project will finalize HSPF watershed model construction and complete the calibration/validation process. The consultant will add representation of point source discharges to the model. The consultant will compile flow data for the purposes of calibration and validation. An initial hydrologic calibration will be performed and submitted for approval.

HSPF Modeling: Thief River Watershed Phase 3
Recipient: 
Houston Engineering
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$33,096
Source: 
Clean Water Fund

This project will finalize the HSPF watershed model construction and complete the calibration/validation process. The consultant will produce an HSPF watershed model that can readily be used to provide information to support conventional parameter TMDLs.