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Rock Soil & Water Conservation District Rock County Land Cover 140 SWCD Guidebook 2008-2009 311 W Gabrielson Road Luverne, MN 56156 PHONE: (507) 283-8862 FAX: (507) 283-5006 www.mn.nrcs.usda.gov/ partnerships/rock/index.htm SWCD board meetings: 3rd Monday of month at • • 9:30 a.m. November - March 7:30 a.m. April - October Agricultural Forest Grass/Shrub/Wetland Water Impervious Recent Projects / Accomplishments SWCD Board of Supervisors The Land Management Offi ce for Rock County was created through a Joint Powers Agreement in 1996 between the Rock SWCD and Rock County. The SWCD promotes and supports the Federal Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) and State Cost-Share programs to eligible landowners, plants shelterbelts and windbreaks, and promotes riparian buffers and streambank stabilization projects. The offi ce and its staff assist in new construction and expansion of animal feedlots. The offi ce has been the key contact point for conservation easement programs. The offi ce is also involved in providing technical assistance for SRFfunded conservation practices and coordinates with the Southwest Prairie Joint Powers Organization (SWPJPO) for engineering and technical assistance services to landowners. The Land Management Offi ce is also the local contact for Rock County Planning and Zoning, the Minnesota Delegated Feedlot Program, County Ag Inspection, Comprehensive Local Waterplanning, Countywide Geographic Information System (GIS), Individual Septic Treatment Systems (ISTS), and Conservation and Environmental Education Programs. A grant to provide technical and engineering expertise to area landowners has enabled 2005 Expenditures by category Monitoring / Research -- Education / Outreach $800 Wetland Conservation Act -- Cost Share / project construction, implementation and maintenance $266,863 Planning/ other local water management duties $485 Conservation easement funding / assistance -- Programs and Operations $8,545 Total $276,693 Name Position Address Phone Elected Vicky Smook Chair 1707 181st Street, Luverne 507-283-4565 1996 Don Reker Vice-Chair 496 181st Street, Jasper 507-348-7476 1996 Alan Leuthold Secretary 149 60th Avenue, Hills 507-962-3412 1994 Eugene Cragoe Treasurer 402 South Fairview, Luverne 507-283-1839 1978 Norman Overgaard P R & I 584 170th Avenue, Luverne 507-283-8267 2000
Pictured: A feedlot upgrade project under construction. the Rock County Land Management Offi ce to hire an employee for this purpose. The offi ce has been participating in this Non- Point Engineering Assistance (NPEA) Grant since 2004 with the Southwest Prairie Joint Powers Organization (SWPJPO). The staff person also works with the other nine SWCDs in the area. A major portion of 90 feedlots have been brought into compliance with the State Feedlot Rules. These feedlots were identifi ed as environmental concerns through a countywide Level III Feedlot Inventory, conducted from June 2002 to December of 2004. Rock County has helped to provide several thousand dollars in federal and State Cost- Share dollars to producers for corrections to feedlot runoff concerns. Engineering has been provided by the NPEA grant. Projects to stabilize streambanks along the Rock River have been completed by the Rock County Land Management Offi ce, in partnership with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Minnesota DNR. The Rock River is a federally impaired surface water, with turbidity identifi ed as one of the pollutants. Streambank erosion (sloughing off) is a contributing factor to turbidity. The Rock River has also been identifi ed as habitat for the federally endangered Topeka Shiner. 140 acres in the Wellhead Protection Area of the Rock County Rural Water Systems were enrolled in conservation easements through the CREP II program. The Rock SWCD has been involved in the promotion of the CREP II program. These enrolled acres were considered extremely sensitive, due to the shallow aquifer involved in providing a safe supply of drinking water to many of the rural residents and farmsteads in Rock County. This rural water system provides drinking water alone to at least 25 percent of the residents of Rock County. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Rock Soil & Water Conservation District Top 5 Natural Resource Concerns Protect groundwater quality and quantity, especially in the designated Drinking Water Supply Management Area Feedlot program management through the Minnesota Delegated Feedlot Program to help promote and ensure countywide compliance with the 7020 Feedlot Rules Protect surface water quality Restore surface water quality in the Impaired Waters through TMDL Assessment and Implementation planning Reduce agricultural runoff from cropland and feedlots Future Projects The Rock County Land Management Offi ce is leading the planning and development of the TMDL involving the Rock River, which is on the federal impaired waters list. The ongoing process includes monitoring and sampling water in seven locations within the county. The process involves bi-monthly meetings with Rock SWCD and County Environmental Services Offi ces staff and staff from the other participating counties of Nobles, Murray, and Pipestone, as well as staff from the MPCA and Minnesota State University (Mankato). The group will develop an overall Implementation Plan to submit to the EPA, obtain federal approval, apply for grant dollars, including Clean Water Legacy funds, and work to install conservation practices to ultimately de-list the river. The SWCD is working with various partners, including Rock County, the City of Luverne, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, and Minnesota DNR in a dam removal project on the Rock River, within the city limits of Luverne. There have been two drownings associated with it, and it has proven to be a substantial sediment trap, quite likely an additional factor to the impairment of the Rock River. It has also been an impediment to the natural movement of the Topeka Shiner, an endangered species. 141
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