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