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Restoring Minnesota’s Lake Superior CoastCaring for streams and their watershedsMinnesotans recognize that the health of Lake Superior depends onthe quality of the water that flows from its watershed.Storm water, wastewater and trash in contact with streams all threatenthe health of Lake Superior by carrying garbage, excessive sedimentand other pollutants. In 2001, Minnesota’s Lake Superior CoastalProgram worked with a variety of natural resource managers toleverage a federal commitment of restoration funds to protect andrestore Lake Superior streams and shorelines.Managing Storm Water. Streams dominated by surface waterrunoff drain much of Minnesota’s Lake Superior watershed.The healthof these tributary streams – and consequently Lake Superior – dependson the quality of the water that enters after storms and spring snowmelt.Improving the quality of water draining into tributary streams enhanceshabitat for aquatic communities by reducing excessive sediment loads,reducing peak flows, maintaining base water flow throughout the yearand reducing erosion.Local organizations and communities used Great Lakes Restoration grantsto create detention basins and sediment traps, provide information tolocal decision makers on water quality and quantity, manage watershedsto reduce storm water impacts and control erosion.Restoring Streamsides and Shorelines. A historyof human use and activity in Minnesota’s coastal region has leftchallenges for managing streams and lakeshores. Old dumps, abandonedbuildings and other waste threaten stream and shore habitats, limitpublic recreation opportunities and jeopardize public health and safety.Projects funded by Great Lakes Restoration grants are being used toclean up old dumpsites along eroding stream banks and acquireshoreland for restoration where unsafe, abandoned buildings remainhazards.These efforts will reduce erosion, prevent waste from enteringstreams and provide safe shoreline recreation opportunities.Providing Wastewater Treatment Options.Ensuring homeowners have effective alternatives for managingwastewater is important throughout Minnesota’s coastal area sincesanitary sewers do not serve much of the area.The geography and soilconditions of the area often make conventional septic systemsineffective. A Great Lakes Coastal Restoration grant is building on amulti-year effort to test, maintain and demonstrate alternative systemsto treat household and commercial property wastewater and provideeducation and training about alternative technologies.The Future of Great Lakes Restorations.Federal Great Lakes Restoration grants are working in Minnesota.The first allocation leveraged $3 million of restoration work on elevenprojects and successfully mobilized a wide variety of local, statewideand federal partners.Caring for streams and their watersheds has become an important andaccepted way of improving the condition of Lake Superior.Communities and local partnerships continue to identify projects thatprotect and restore water quality.[ 8] GREAT LAKES RESTORATION PROJECT
Minnesota Great Lakes Restoration ProjectsProject name.Grantee.Grant amount/total project cost.Brief description.Cook CountyGrand Marais StormwaterManagement – ErosionControl Restoration inCreechville Area.County of Cook.$213,120/$284,220.Reduce erosion and preventsediment from entering LakeSuperior.Grand Marais and CookCounty StormwaterManagement Plan – WaterQuality & Quantity Monitoring.County of Cook.$10,500/$14,000.Provide baseline information toevaluate implementation of planand to reduce flooding.Grand Marais StormwaterManagement – ErosionControl Restoration on VillageCreek.County of Cook.$127,335/$169,780.Provide baseline information toevaluate plan and reduceflooding.Grand Marais StreambankStabilization andNaturalization.City of Grand Marais.$10,310/$14197.Restore eroding stream banks inthe popular City Park andCampground with bioengineeringmethods.Lake CountyCarriere Property Acquisitionand Restoration.Minnesota Department ofNatural Resources.$195,750/$446,600.Acquire, restore and protectcoastal lands.Two Harbors Old City DumpSite Restoration.City of Two Harbors.$118,980/$175,680.Remove waste from contact witha stream and correct an erosionand sedimentation problem.Detention Basin Construction– Two Harbors Storm WaterManagement Plan.City of Two Harbors.$144,000/$192,000.Reduce peak flows in SkunkCreek resulting in less erosionand sedimentation and betterwater quality entering LakeSuperior.Acquisition of LighthousePoint.City of Two Harbors.$104,230/$1,800,000.Assist the city with the purchaseof a 51 acre property, home tothe Two Harbors Lighthouse,walking trails and a public boataccess.Reserve Mining Ground andSurface Water ContaminationControl.Minnesota Pollution ControlAgency.$104,230/153,000.Investigate an old scrapyard anddiesel range organics plume siteto define nature, extent andmigration of ground watercontamination threatening theCity of Silver Bay water supply.St. Louis CountyManaged Onsite WastewaterTreatment Systems in theLake Superior Basin:Outreach and Education.Natural Resources ResearchInstitute, University ofMinnesota Duluth.$32,253/$40,316.Operate and monitor alternativewastewater treatmenttechnologies at a test facility.Remediation of Sargent’sCreek Dump Site.City of Duluth.$341,262/$515,000.Restore habitat at a formerneighborhood dumpsite, removewaste from contact with acoastal stream and eliminatehuman exposure.Miller Creek Restoration:Watershed Coordinator.Miller Creek Joint PowersBoard.$59,000/$68,600.Hire a watershed coordinator tomanage restoration projects.Miller Creek Restoration:Easement Acquisition.Miller Creek Joint PowersBoard.$203,000/$276,733.Protect riparian land andwetlands through purchase ofconservation easements.Miller Creek Restoration:Sediment Trap.Miller Creek Joint PowersBoard.$60,000/$80,000.Remove sediment from MillerCreek through the construction ofan in-stream sediment trap.GREAT LAKES RESTORATION PROJECT [ 9]
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