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Statewide Watershed Achievements Report 2015 Financial information Funding type: Section 319 Grant amount: $39,997 Final in-kind: $69,082 Contact information Connie Fortin, President Fortin Consulting Inc. 215 Hamel Road Hamel, MN 55340 763-478-3606 connie@fortinconsulting.com MPCA Project Manager: Brooke Asleson Winter Road Maintenance Training in Scott County, 2014 Minnesota Pollution Control Agency www.pca.state.mn.us 42
Statewide Watershed Achievements Report 2015 Statewide Active projects Section 319 projects awarded in 2014 None awarded in 2015 Assessing Enhanced Swales for Pollution Prevention – 2011 Sponsor: U of M Funding: Section 319 (Grant) $400,000 Purpose: This research will demonstrate the effectiveness of a new stormwater treatment system developed specifically for capturing dissolved phosphorus and heavy metals from roadway runoff. This new technology is relatively inexpensive to install compared to standard stormwater treatment practices and will fit within the limited roadway right-of-way, making it applicable to public and private roadways throughout the State of Minnesota and beyond. With approximately 290,954 lane-miles of public roadways in Minnesota and an approximate annual phosphorus load of 1.87 pounds per lane-mile, the potential reduction in phosphorus load to receiving water bodies is (at a 90% capture rate) approximately 488,800 pounds per year. The result would be a substantial improvement in water quality wherever this novel technology is installed. Stormwater professionals will be informed of these results through workshops, a technical advisory panel, and UPDATES (a stormwater research newsletter with distribution to more than 2,000 interested parties). We will also seek inclusion in the on-line document, “Minnesota Stormwater Manual,” http://www.pca.state. mn.us/index.php/view-document.html?gid=8937. Chloride Reduction Outreach Program – 2012 Sponsor: Freshwater Society Funding: Section 319 (Grant) $97,286 Purpose: This project will engage public officials, businesses and citizens in a facilitated planning process that will increase their understanding of chloride pollution, ways to reduce it at organizational and personal levels, create and implement a collaborative Chloride Reduction Outreach Strategy and Implementation Plan for Rochester, Mankato and St. Cloud that will be distributed to citizens, businesses and public officials for future action. eLINK Database Support FY15 – 2014 Sponsor: Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources Funding: Section 319 (Grant) $60,000 Purpose: Provide eLINK database support to MPCA staff, local units of government and grant sponsors; record soil and water conservation project BMPs, geographic project locations and load reductions in eLINK; and provide a section for the annual Watershed Achievements Report showing estimated load reductions. HSPF Scenario Application Manager (SAM) User Group Workgroup – 2015 Sponsor: RESPEC Funding: Section 319 (Grant) $170,282 Purpose: Develop SAM interface enhancements, BMP database improvements and development of a preprocessing tool to automate the processing of HSPF model applications. The contractor will also develop documentation for the software and perform QA/QC and testing for functionality created for the previous work order and the phase in this work order. HSPF Scenario Application Manager User Group Workshop – 2015 Sponsor: RESPEC Funding: Section 319 (Grant) $10,060 Purpose: Provide funding for a Scenario Application Manager (SAM) User Group workshop to assess the needs of likely users for a watershed-scale, decision-support tool to facilitate prioritization and placement of BMPs to achieve the needed pollution reductions identified by the WRAPS/TMDL reports. Internal Phosphorus Load Reduction with Iron Filings – 2013 Sponsor: U of M Funding: Section 319 (Grant) $299,047 Purpose: Determine the effectiveness of iron filings under different conditions at reducing internal phosphorus loading, determine the conditions required for iron filings to be effective at reducing internal phosphorus loading, and determine the quantity of iron filings that must be Minnesota Pollution Control Agency www.pca.state.mn.us 43
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