Clean Water Legacy Act MN Ramps It Up

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Clean Water Legacy ActMN Ramps It Up

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M.S. Ch. 114.05

• Purpose protect, restore, and preserve the
  quality of Minnesota surface waters

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Overview

• The Money
• Assessment Monitoring
• TMDL development
• Non-point source
• Point source
• The policy move dirt shrink 303d list
• The process New money, old programs

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CWLA Story

• G-16 campaign
• Passed the policy
• Passed some of the money

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Money

• 36/year fee did not happen
• Short-term one time
• Long-term unknown

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Money is One-Time

• 15.64 M general fund
• 9.31 M bonding
• 0.64 M Environmental Trust Fund

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2.14 M Monitoring

• MPCA and DNR
• Expands Monitoring at
• Citizen Lake Monitoring
• Remote Sensing
• Integrated monitoring at the watershed level
• Flow Monitoring
• Fish tissue monitoring

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3.17 M TMDLs

• MPCA
• 10 additional TMDLs
• Staffing
• Technical staffing to assist 3rd parties
• Clean Water Council Support

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11.23 M Dirt Moving

• Both Protection and Restoration
• Interagency Coordination
• BWSR, DNR, MDA
• MPCAs 319 TMDL restoration funds also included

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8.41 M Point Source

• Both Protection and Restoration
• PFA
• Small community septic loans
• Small community septic tech assistance
• 75 grants for P treatment infrastructure

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Policy Clean Water Council

• 20 members
• Recommend Implementation Plan annually
• Recommend appropriations to Governor from the
  Clean Water Legacy Acct.
• Biennial Report by Dec. 1st
• (even-numbered years)

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Policy General Direction

• Prioritize and target financial/technical
  resources
• Use existing regulatory authorities
• Promote non-regulatory means elsewhere
• Use effective methods that provide greatest
  long-term water and conservation benefits

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Surface Water Restoration and Protection
Restoration
Protection

TMDL Plan
Water Mgmt Plan
Proposals For Land Treatment Technical
Assistance Monitoring
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Policy Restoration Priorities

• Coordinate with local authorities
• Provide support for existing efforts
• Leverage other funding
• Show high potential for early restoration
• Show high potential for multi-benefits

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Completed TMDLs (2006)

• Lower Mississippi River - Fecal
• Lower Minnesota River DO
• S. Br. Yellow Medicine River Fecal
• Long Prairie River Fecal

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Nearly Completed (2006)

• Chippewa River Fecal Coliform
• Shingle Creek Chloride
• N. Br. Sunrise River Fecal
• Otter Tail River - Turbidity

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Nearly Completed (2006)

• Cannon River - Turbidity
• Blue Earth River - Fecal
• Bevens and Silver Creeks - Fecal
• Lake Independence Nutrients

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Surface Water Restoration and Protection
Restoration
Protection

TMDL Plan
Water Mgmt Plan
Proposals For Land Treatment Technical
Assistance Monitoring
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Policy Protection/Prevention

• Similar to restoration except goal is to
• prevent waters from becoming impaired
• improve waters that are listed as impaired but
  have no approved TMDL yet

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Process

• Point source through PFA in July
• Non-point source to BWSR in September
• Might be different next time
• Need money to be a next time

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Five local roles in a TMDL

• Facilitation scoping
• Intense monitoring / investigation
• TMDL development project management
• Model development
• Allocation exercise
• Implementation planner/executor
• Post-monitoring reporting

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Who is Responsible?
Facilitation/scoping Intense monitoring TMDL
development Imp. plan development Post
monitoring reporting
PCA
Local Government
Level of responsibility
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There is no one best way

• Definitely yes for a lakeshed completely in
  your jurisdiction
• Definitely no for Lake Pepin
• Theres room between these extremes