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BOOK OF ABSTRACTS Tuesday, Monday, October 27 23 Poster Session 4:45–5:45 Ditched Stream Restoration: Painter Creek, Minnetrista Tom Miller, Emmons & Olivier Resources, Inc., tmiller@eorinc.com; Renae Clark, Minnehaha Creek Watershed District A stream restoration project was implemented in March of 2008 on Painter Creek in an effort to improve water quality in Jennings’s Bay, Lake Minnetonka. This restoration project was implemented after the wetland was identified as having a high phosphorus sorption potential. The main project components include: ■■ ■■ ■■ ■■ ■■ ■■ creation of 2,500 LF of natural stream channel within a 58-acre ditched wetland, weir modification, sheet pile weir construction, bypass channel filling, native seeding and plantings, and reed canary grass management. The new channel was seeded and planted in spring of 2008 and will be allowed one full year to establish before it is brought on-line. This presentation will highlight aspects of the design and construction, focusing on successes and lessons learned. Developing Aquatic Life Benchmarks for Pesticides Phil Monson, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, phil.monson@state.mn.us; Joe Zachman, Minnesota Department of Agriculture; Angela Preimesberger, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Gathering and assessing toxicological research data is essential for developing decision-making tools to assess the quality of Minnesota waters. This project examined the utility of pesticide aquatic life benchmarks developed using a range of data primarily from public agency, pesticide registrant, and open literature sources. Methods used in this effort were assessed for their effectiveness to develop benchmarks using limited data sets. Toxicological data for pesticides was assessed for quality assurance and examined for defensible outcomes by comparing benchmarks developed from the selected data sources. Data gaps, method refinements and policy considerations will be discussed. 47 Minnesota Water Resources Conference, October 27–28, 2008
Poster Session 4:45–5:45 BOOK OF ABSTRACTS Tuesday, Monday, October 27 23 Blue Thumb—Planting for Clean Water Dawn Pape, Rice Creek Watershed District, dpape@ricecreek.org; Angie Hong, Washington Conservation District; Elizabeth Storey, Capitol Region Watershed District This talk is geared for: MS4s and Cities working to achieve (or exceed!) their SWPPP requirements in Education and Outreach and Public Participation. and water resource educators looking to work with a team of 37 partners to achieve change across the state. The Blue Thumb—Planting for Clean Water program makes it easy for residents interested in doing their part to protect water quality to plan, purchase and plant native gardens, raingardens and shorelines with native plants. The Blue Thumb program was started by the Rice Creek Watershed District as an outreach program to meet water quality goals identified in their strategic plan and to help their cities meet their federal Clean Water Act mandates. Now Blue Thumb reaches beyond the Rice Creek Watershed District boundaries into the Twin Cities metro area and greater Minnesota. There are currently 37 Blue Thumb partners. Get involved with this award winning partnership has launched an extensive media campaign, held scores of workshops for residents, trained professional landscapers on lake shore restoration and raingardens, had representation at hundreds of fairs and events, created an incredible raingarden guide and have built a partnership of 36 member organizations. Creating a Database of Empirical Watershed Characteristics for Atlases of Minnesota’s Water Resources Sustainability Heidi Peterson, University of Minnesota, pete6495@umn.edu; John Nieber, University of Minnesota; Roman Kanivetsky, University of Minnesota; David Mulla, University of Minnesota; Francisco Lahoud, University of Minnesota; Boris Shmagin, South Dakota State University Creating a watershed characteristic database is the first and most significant step in the analysis of spatiotemporal distributions of Minnesota’s water balance components. The database spatially associates hydrologic data (annual discharge, monthly proportion, and yield) with topographical, soil and vadose zone, ecological and hydrogeological conditions and properties. USGS stream flow data for 129 gauging stations located within Minnesota was manipulated to display within ArcGIS. The boundaries for the corresponding drainage areas (watersheds) were delineated using ArcHydro. Characteristics of the 129 watersheds (drainage areas 100-10,000 square miles) were summarized to create a matrix database (1947-1971 (79 watersheds), 1955-1979 (93), and 1976-2006 (74)). Statistical exploratory techniques can be used with this database to transform initial matrices of watershed characteristics into linear components and residual matrices, thereby establishing watershed interconnections. To account for Minnesota’s future developments in water sustainability, the watershed characteristics database can be upgraded to include monitoring the surface and ground water regimes. Minnesota Water Resources Conference, October 27–28, 20078 48
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