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Watershed Achievements Report 2015 Annual Report to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Clean Water Act Section 319, Clean Water Partnership, and Clean Water Fund Projects in Minnesota A portion of the Clean Water Partnership Grant funds that are passed through to local units of government for nonpoint source implementation projects listed in this report are appropriated from the Clean Water, Land, and Legacy Amendment. Contents Cover photo: Lake Shaokatan, Lincoln County a Success Story . . . Lake Shaokatan: A prairie lake with improving water quality..........................................................................................3 Introduction.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................6 List of acronyms......................................................................................................................................................................................................................8 Maps Statewide intensive watershed monitoring schedule and progress........................................................................................................ 10 Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategies (WRAPS) progress .................................................................................................... 11 Impaired waters in Minnesota................................................................................................................................................................................ 12 Approved TMDLs in Minnesota.............................................................................................................................................................................. 13 Tracking progress........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 14 Previous Impairments Now Meeting Water Quality Standards Due to Corrective Actions............................................................. 16 LARS and eLINK results from Section 319 and CWP projects 1997–July 2015......................................................................................... 17 All projects awarded through 2015............................................................................................................................................................................ 21 Summary of statewide watershed project activity Projects completed, currently active and awarded ..................................... 26 Statewide ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 27 Clean Water Performance Report – Social Measures Monitoring System (MPCA)..................................................................................... 28 eLINK Database Support – FFY 2013.......................................................................................................................................................................... 29 Enhanced filter media for removal of dissolved heavy metals and phosphorus from stormwater runoff....................................... 30 Initiate Implementation of Minnesota’s Nutrient Reduction Strategy........................................................................................................... 31 Minnesota Pollution Reduction and Economics Test with Nutrient Tracking Tool ................................................................................... 32 Phosphorus and Water Balance Tools for TMDL Plans.......................................................................................................................................... 34 Planning Tool for Watershed Scale Surface Water Nutrient Reduction ......................................................................................................... 35 Side Inlets to Improve Water Quality.......................................................................................................................................................................... 36 Social Indicators for Nonpoint Source Pollution in Minnesota......................................................................................................................... 38 Strategy to Increase Vegetative Cover on Agricultural Landscapes................................................................................................................ 40 Turf and Winter Maintenance Training – FFY 2010 Amendment..................................................................................................................... 41 Statewide Active projects................................................................................................................................................................................................ 43 Cedar River Basin ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 46 wq-cwp8-18 Minnesota Pollution Control Agency www.pca.state.mn.us 4
Cedar River Watershed and Shell Rock River Watershed HSPF Modeling.................................................................................................... 47 Cedar River Alternative Ditch Designs...................................................................................................................................................................... 48 Cedar River Basin Active projects................................................................................................................................................................................ 49 Des Moines and Missouri River Basins ...................................................................................................................................................................... 50 Heron Lake Sediment Reduction Demonstration Project................................................................................................................................. 51 Des Moines and Missouri River Basins Active projects....................................................................................................................................... 52 Lake Superior Basin............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 54 HSPF Active Groundwater Refinement ................................................................................................................................................................... 55 Lake Superior River Basin................................................................................................................................................................................................ 56 Lower Mississippi River Basin........................................................................................................................................................................................ 57 Southeast Regional Grant for Water Quality........................................................................................................................................................... 58 Lower Mississippi Basin Active Projects.................................................................................................................................................................... 60 Minnesota River Basin...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 62 A decision support tool to restore impaired waters ........................................................................................................................................... 63 Minnesota River BMPs to Reduce Phosphorus...................................................................................................................................................... 64 Cottonwood River Native Vegetation Water Quality........................................................................................................................................... 65 Strengthening Watershed Work Group Formation.............................................................................................................................................. 67 Burandt Lake Excess Nutrient Implementation Plan........................................................................................................................................... 69 Minnesota River Tributary Phosphorus and Flow BMPs..................................................................................................................................... 71 Quantifying Nutrient Removal by Street Sweeping............................................................................................................................................ 73 Rush River Watershed TMDL Implementation Project for Fecal Coliform.................................................................................................... 75 Middle Minnesota Phosphorus Load Reduction.................................................................................................................................................. 77 Greater Blue Earth and Des Moines River SSTS loans.......................................................................................................................................... 79 HSPF Minnesota River basin resegmentation 2010-2012................................................................................................................................. 80 HSPF Upper Minnesota and Lac qui Parle Rivers Watershed Phase 1........................................................................................................... 81 Redwood River Watershed Nonpoint Pollution Reduction Project................................................................................................................ 82 Lower Minnesota River Dissolved Oxygen Elevation Project........................................................................................................................... 83 HSPF Scenario Application Manager Development............................................................................................................................................ 85 Minnesota River Basin Active Projects....................................................................................................................................................................... 86 Red River Basin..................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 94 Bois de Sioux Watershed Nutrient Load Assessment.......................................................................................................................................... 95 Grand Marais and Snake River Watersheds HSPF Modeling – July 2014...................................................................................................... 97 Red River Basin..................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 98 St. Croix River Basin........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 99 Groundhouse Fecal Coliform and Biota Implementation Project................................................................................................................100 North Branch Sunrise River Fecal Coliform Reduction Project..................................................................................................................101 St. Croix Basin Civic Governance Training and Civic Policy Pilot...................................................................................................................103 St. Croix River Basin Active projects ........................................................................................................................................................................105 Upper Mississippi River Basin......................................................................................................................................................................................107 North Cannon River Bacteria Reduction Project.................................................................................................................................................108 Hardwood Creek TMDL Implementation Project................................................................................................................................................109 Permeable Reactive Barrier for Phosphorus Removal.......................................................................................................................................110 Twin Lake Wetland 639W Nutrient Export Reduction.......................................................................................................................................111 Villa Park Wetland Enhanced TP Removal Project..............................................................................................................................................112 Upper Mississippi River Basin Active projects......................................................................................................................................................113 Minnesota Pollution Control Agency www.pca.state.mn.us 5
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