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Freeborn Soil & Water Conservation District Freeborn County Land Cover 50 SWCD Guidebook 2008-2009 1400 West Main Street Albert Lea, MN 56007 PHONE: (507) 373-5607 FAX: (507) 373-7654 www.freebornswcd.org SWCD board meetings: 2nd Thursday of the month at • • 7:30 p.m. (April-November) or 1:30 p.m. (December-March) Agricultural Forest Grass/Shrub/Wetland Water Impervious Recent Projects / Accomplishments SWCD Board of Supervisors A water and sediment control basin (pictured) was recently constructed that solved a critical gully erosion problem on the shoreline of one of our shallow lakes. The basin ridge (foreground) temporarily stores runoff water until the PVC inlet can remove it safely underground. This eliminated the gully problem keeping sediment out of the wetland. State Cost Share Funds helped pay for this installation. 2005 Expenditures by category Monitoring / Research $1,200 Education / Outreach $2,000 Wetland Conservation Act $5,500 Cost Share / project construction, implementation and maintenance $45,646 Planning/ other local water management duties $6,200 Conservation easement funding / assistance -- Programs and Operations $174,323 Total $234,869 Name Position Address Phone Elected Don Kropp Chairman 2005 Tower Road, Albert Lea 507-373-1925 1986 Cole Pestorious Vice-Chair 20770 707 Avenue, Albert Lea 507-373-6758 2002 Obert Haldorson Secretary 87861 170 Street, Austin 507-351-5094 1994 David Ausen Treasurer 69128 260 Street, Alden 507-863-2165 2004 Chris Dahl Member 27296 730 Avenue, Albert Lea 507-826-3463 2007 (Appointed)
13 water and sediment control basins were installed on land owned by fi ve different landowners working in partnership with the Greater Blue Earth River Basin Alliance (GBERBA). Just under $20,000 was paid to landowners as cost-share to encourage them to install needed erosion control measures. About 100,000 acres of the northwest corner of Freeborn County is part of the Minnesota The black horizontal strip visible behind the orange tile inlet pipe is the ridge of a water and sediment control basin in this fi eld. Parallel ridges are spaced 180 feet apart and help protect a CREP wetland restoration below. River Watershed. The SWCD is a member of the alliance that seeks out and administers grants aimed at improving water quality and reducing soil erosion in the watershed. An SWCD staff member and supervisor meet regularly with its Technical and Executive Committees. A Clean Water Legacy Act grant received by GBERBA has made an additional $19,000 in cost share dollars available to promote soil erosion abatement efforts in Freeborn County. The grant addresses a Turbidity TMDL in the Blue Earth River Basin. Landowners in the Cobb River Watershed of northwest Freeborn County can now receive cost share for a number of traditional conservation practice installations. A separate CWLA grant was received by SE Minnesota Technical Support JPB. This grant addresses a Fecal Coliform TMDL for the Cedar River Watershed. Cost share funds for small feedlot fi xes and landowner assistance in Nutrient Management Planning is available as part of the SWCD’s participation and partnership in this JPB. A wetland restoration project was completed with engineering assistance from the SE MN Technical Support JPB. The end of a deep open ditch was stabilized and a wetland adjacent to it was restored by installing an Aluminum Toe Wall Drop Structure. The landowner had a 10-acre wetland that was degrading because the outlet was eroding. The SE MN JPB Engineer provided technical support, designing a structure that controls the outlet for a 350-plus acre watershed. The water level in the wetland was raised and the outlet end was protected from Freeborn Soil & Water Conservation District further erosion and degradation. A number of wetland restorations have now been fi nished as a result of the CREP signup that ended in 2002 in the Minnesota River Watershed. Freeborn has 18 easements covering over 500 acres that have converted marginal ag land into productive wetlands from that sign-up. The native grasses and forbs planted on the fringe areas are now well established and depict the original prairie/pothole landscape that covered much of the county. CREP II ended in 2007, and Freeborn SWCD has applications from 12 landowners currently to enroll over 500 acres of marginal ag land. Five of these applications are contiguous and will produce a signifi cant wetland restoration area. Top 5 Natural Resource Concerns 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Soil erosion caused by surface water run-off Surface Water Quality Ground Water Quality Wildlife Habitat Flood Mitigation Future Projects Five landowners in Riceland Township have enrolled over 300 acres of contiguous ag land into a single CREP II Wetland Restoration Project. Agreements for conservation easements have all been signed and the restoration work will begin in 2008. Preliminary engineering plans have been completed for a large embankment structure complemented by several smaller ones. The large structure will probably have draw-down capabilities and thus provide some storage for fl ood mitigation in the Turtle Creek Watershed, and more specifi cally for the City of Hollandale. The smaller embankments will restore additional wetlands outside the pool area created by the large structure. When the easements are done, BWSR Engineers can fi nalize the plans for the restoration work. As with all CREP easements, the wetland restorations will feature native grass and forb seedings. Food plots and tree plantings are also being planned for this project. This project is being done in cooperation with the Turtle Creek Watershed Board of Managers, The local Farm Service Agency, NRCS and our SWCD. A portion of the construction cost may be paid by the watershed board. 51
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