Projects Funded Fall 2010
Alliance for Sustainability - Watershed-Friendly
Congregations Tool Kit and Workshops
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Description:
Volunteers
and staff from 30+ MCWD congregations will assess their buildings and
grounds to decide the storm water BMPs they will begin in 2011 through our Watershed Friendly Congregations Tool Kit and urban & suburban
workshops.
- Project
Started: January 2011
- Project
Completed: December 2011
- Total
Funding: $5,000
Armatage Montessori School - Armatage Rain Gardens
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Description:
The project joins Armatage
students, families, and community in a partnership with Metro Blooms to
reduce storm water runoff in the sub Minnehaha Creek Watershed area. This goal will be realized through water
stewardship education and the installation of school and community rain
gardens.
- Project
Started: January 2011
- Project
Completed: December 2011
- Total
Funding: $3,000
Central States Water Environment Association Minnesota
Section - Liquid Assets “A
Documentary Film on Minnesota’s Critical Water Infrastructure”
- Description: “Sustainability of our water infrastructure assets” is the theme of a
30-minute documentary film proposed to raise awareness about Minnesota’s
critical water infrastructure (drinking water, wastewater and stromwater) and
the need to invest in it.
- Project
Started: June 2011
- Project
Completed: December 2012
- Total
Funding: $3,000
Field Regina Northrop Neighborhood Group (FRNNG) - Earth Week Celebration –
workshops
- Description: We aim to increase awareness of storm water
runoff and non-point source pollution among residents in the Field, Regina, and
Northrop neighborhoods of Minneapolis. Two educational workshops are planned in
addition to a storm drain stenciling project.
- Project
Started: January 2011
- Project
Completed: December 2011
- Total
Funding: $1,027
Freshwater Society - Community Clean-ups for
Water Quality
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Description:
The Freshwater Society will
develop a neighborhood outreach directory, conduct trainings and over 20
organic waste clean-ups with lake and neighborhood associations, local
governmental agencies and other active water organizations to reduce
transmittal of nitrogen and phosphorus in storm water to impaired water
bodies.
- Project
Started: January 2011
- Project
Completed: December 2011
- Total
Funding: $23,750
Hamline University’s Center for Global Environmental
Education (CGEE) - Minnehaha Creek Educator
Network: Community Watershed Ambassadors Project
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Description: CGEE will develop teacher leaders who educate
and create awareness among students and the community about causes, effects and
remedies of nonpoint source pollution. Funding at $23.5K will support
educators’ participation in River Institutes; facilitate field activities, and
support an educators’ network with access to resources that advance watershed
stewardship.
- Project
Started: January 2011
- Project
Completed : June 2012
- Total
Funding: $20,000
Lake Minnewashta Preservation Association (LMPA) - Zebra Mussel Prevention
Program
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Description: This program will provide onsite education to
boat launchers and lake residents, community education of the Mussel problem
and solutions, increased inspection activities, and the installation and
operation of a hot water pressure washer system at the Carver Regional Park
launch sites for the prevention of Mussel infestation in Lake Minnewashta.
- Project
Started: January 2011
- Project
Completed : N/A
- Total
Funding: $5,000
Metro Blooms - Raingarden Education
Program
- Description: Metro Blooms will use funds for Raingarden
Education Programs to introduce the broad community of the Minnehaha Creek
Watershed District to the beauty and benefits of raingardens – putting
raingardening in the hands of gardeners and non-gardeners alike. Our Neighborhood Raingarden Events provide
education and installation support to residents in target neighborhoods of an
impaired water body with education and installation assistance and incentives.
In 2010, our plans include working in partnership with the host cities of Minneapolis,
Shorewood, Victoria, St. Louis Park, and Plymouth and with Minneapolis Public
Schools, including Armatage in the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District.
- Project
Started: January 2011
- Project
Completed : N/A
- Total
Funding: $21,000
Minneapolis Public Schools - Raingarden Maintenance and
Education Plan
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Description: Minneapolis Public Schools will begin
raingarden maintenance and educational programming at several schools in the
Minnehaha Creek Watershed District. The
intent of this project is to create opportunities to integrate existing science
curriculum with school rain gardens, and to tie classrooms to rain gardens in
an effort to establish an ongoing maintenance regime for rain gardens on school
district property.
- Project
Started: January 2011
- Project
Completed : August 2012
- Total
Funding: $20,000
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum - Green
Heron Pond Area Interpretive Signage
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Description: The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum will
install interpretive signage in the Green Heron Pond area to describe: how
wetlands support plant and animal life; how a wetland’s ability to filter water
is affected by activities upstream; and positive actions visitors can take to
improve water quality.
- Total Funding: $5,000
- Project
Started: January 2011
- Project
Completed : N/A
The Cynthia Krieg Stewardship Fund was established by the Minnehaha Creek 
