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Cynthia Krieg Watershed Stewardship Fund Project History
Summary:
The Cynthia Krieg Watershed Stewardship Fund was established by the Minnehaha
Creek Watershed District in 2000, in memory of Cynthia Krieg, whose life
exemplified dedication to community service and natural resource protection. This
fund encourages and supports community service initiatives to protect water quality
and promote public awareness of nonpoint source pollution abatement. It is a
competitive grant; $100,000.00 is made available annually.
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Projects Funded Fall 2012
Alliance for Sustainability
Watershed-Friendly Congregations Working Together
Description: Volunteers and staff from 15 congregations throughout the District will work
together to assess their buildings and grounds for opportunities to install stormwater BMPs or
adopt more water conscious activities.
Project Started: January 2013
Project Completed: December 2012
Total Funding: $20,000
El Colegio
Aguas Curriculum
Description: Create a bilingual English-Spanish curriculum and onsite learning environment for
K-3 students, including lessons about water taught by El Colegio High School students.
Project Started: January 2013
Project Completed: December 2012
Total Funding: $16,160
Freshwater Society
Implementing Community Stormwater Management Projects Using Master Water
Stewards
Description: Implementing Community Stormwater Management Projects Using Master
Water Stewards. The Master Water Stewards (MWS) program will certify clean water
stewards who will install pollution prevention projects on both residential and commercial
properties and educate citizens in their neighborhoods to reduce urban storm water runoff and
nutrient loads.
Project Started: January 2013
Project Completed: December 2012
Total Funding: $15,000
Metro Blooms
Lake Nokomis Neighborhood of Raingardens
Description: The citizen-based, neighborhood-focused process to engage local property owners
in efforts to improve water quality is in full support of the Lake Nokomis TMDL, approved by the
US EPA in April 2011.
Project Started: January 2013
Project Completed: December 2012
Total Funding: $17,340
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Northern Lights
Neighbors by Way of Water
Description: This project will produce a location-based game concept that raises awareness
about water quality and the connectivity we share relative to stormwater management systems
and Minnehaha Creek.
Project Started: January 2013
Project Completed: December 2012
Total Funding: $25,000
Phyllis Wheatley Community Center
WATER COVERS eARTH
Description: Provide a leadership opportunity for youth who will learn about the formation of
the chain of lakes within the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District, and the importance of
protecting and preserving our water resources. They will help to make permanent public
artwork showing important citizen conservation efforts to maintain the health of the watershed.
Project Started: January 2013
Project Completed: December 2012
Total Funding: $11,500
Projects Funded Fall 2011
Alliance for Sustainability
West Metro Community Clean Ups for Water Quality
Description: Coordinate volunteers from 30 neighborhoods/block clubs in Edina, Hopkins, St.
Louis Park, and SW Minneapolis to host and organize April or October community clean-ups to
remove soil, grass clippings, and leaves from streets and storm drains to prevent runoff.
Project Started: January 2012
Project Completed: December 2012
Total Funding: $10,000
Bakken Museum
Bakken Museum’s Water Quality Education Project
Description: Educate visitors about the role of the Bakken’s prairie/wetland and green rooftop
in preserving the water quality of Lake Calhoun. Activities include an outdoor exhibit, related
programming and habitat restoration for the wetland area compromised by non-native species.
Project Started: February 2012
Project Completed: December 2012
Total Funding: $15,000
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Carver County Water Management Organization (CCWMO)
Aquatic Invasive Species Inspection Video
Description: Use a unique engagement process - a contest - to solicit ideas and create a short,
entertaining education video discussing AIS and demonstrating how to do a boat inspection.
Project Started: April 2012
Project Completed: December 2012
Total Funding: $4,600
Field Regina Northrop Neighborhood Group (FRNNG)
FRNNG Earth Week Celebration
Description: Increase the awareness of stormwater runoff and NPS pollution and educate
current and potential homeowners in south Minneapolis on methods and practices that they
can do to protect our waters. Organize and hold workshops on organic lawn and garden care
methods and creating a non-toxic home environment. Both focus on the direct impacts we can
have on both storm and drinking water.
Project Started: March 2012
Project Completed: December 2012
Total Funding: $5,000
Friends of the Mississippi River
The State of the River Report
Description: The State of the River Report will increase broad public awareness about the range
of factors affecting river health, and build public support around priorities for action to protect
the river and watershed.
Project Started: March 2012
Project Completed: December 2012
Total Funding: $10,000
Hamline, Center for Global Environmental Education (CGEE)
Minnehaha Creek Watershed Companion: A Community Based Watershed Story
Description: Develop and produce a Minnehaha Creek Watershed Companion, a dynamic
community resource that tells the Minnehaha Creek story, illuminates ways its water quality can
be improved and protected through examples and stories collected by student-teacher groups
within the District.
Project Started: March 2012
Project Completed: June 2013
Total Funding: $23,800
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Hilltop Elementary
Our Water, Our World, and Us
Description: Provide for curriculum development and educational opportunities for K-5
students to participate in various activities that show 1. How erosion affects landforms, 2. How
invasive species can affect the ecosystem, and 3. How water quality can affect the ecology of
the natural environment.
Project Started: January 2012
Project Completed: December 2012
Total Funding: $12,100
Metro Blooms
Stormwater Education, Outreach, and Assistance Program
Description: Education, outreach, and assistance program for raingardens and other
stormwater BMPs. Blooming School Yards: the Wayzata West High School Rain Garden Project,
which is designed to engage students in water quality improvement efforts. Stormwater
Solutions: Commercial District Linden Hills Neighborhood, which is a unique process to assist
businesses in water quality improvement projects by helping them plan BMPs into future
redevelopment or prosperity changes by providing the resources needed to make it a cost-
effective option.
Project Started: February 2012
Project Completed: December 2012
Total Funding: $9,650
Minnesota Erosion Control Association (MECA)
Virtual Tour of Water Improvement/Protection Projects & Erosion and Sediment Control
Instructional Video Clips
Description: MCWD water quality improvement projects will be featured on a web-based
searchable virtual tour, including photos, and detailed project information. Video clips
demonstrating erosion and sediment control practices will also be produced, including filming
and editing.
Project Started:
Project Completed:
Total Funding: $12,788
Projects Funded Fall 2010
Alliance for Sustainability
Watershed-Friendly Congregations Tool Kit and Workshops
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.
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Project Started: January 2011
Project Completed: December 2011
Total Funding: $5,000
Armatage Montessori School
Armatage Rain Gardens
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
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
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Hamline University’s Center for Global Environmental Education (CGEE)
Minnehaha Creek Educator Network: Community Watershed Ambassadors Project
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
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 : December 2011
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 : December 2011
Total Funding: $21,000
Minneapolis Public Schools
Raingarden Maintenance and Education Plan
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
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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
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.
Project Started: January 2011
Project Completed : December 2011
Total Funding: $5,000
Projects Funded Fall 2009
Alliance for Sustainability
Youth Environmental Activists of MN- West Metro Schools Adopt a Creek project
Description: Youth Environmental Activists in five high school environmental clubs will organize
Minnehaha Creek clean-up or restoration events with their City's parks or environment
commissions. Students will ask their city councils to adopt MN Green Step cities water quality
best practices.
Project Started: January 2010
Project Completed : December 2010
Total Funding: $10,000
Audubon Chapter of Minneapolis
Robert’s Bird Sanctuary Restoration Project
Description: Students will visit Robert's Bird Sanctuary to learn about the connections between
water quality, habitat, and the presence or absence of wildlife. Activities will include bird
watching and learning about invasive plants with senior citizens as their guides.
Project Start: April 2010
Project Completed : November 2010
Total Funding: $1,372.75
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Carver County Land & Water Services
Minnewashta Park Raingarden Demonstration
Description: CCLWS will work with Boy Scout Troop 589 to install two raingardens in
Minnewashta Park. The gardens will restore native habitat, reduce stormwater runoff and
improve water quality, and serve as demonstration sites for visitors.
Project Start: January 2010
Project Completed : October 2010
Total Funding: $7,350
City of Shorewood
Shoreline Stabilization Party and Installation
Description: Shorewood will complete a shoreline stabilization project on a residential property,
taking a community-based approach where neighbors will be invited to participate and learn
how to stabilize shorelines. Some participants will receive technical assistance and funding for
their own shoreline projects.
Project Start: April 2010
Project Completed : September 2010
Total Funding: $5,730
Institute on the Environment
The Raingarden Renaissance: A Documentary
Description: Institute on the Environment will coordinate a team of University of Minnesota
students, faculty, and local professionals to produce a film about citizen-based efforts to
improve water quality in Powderhorn Lake. Community screenings will provide multiple
perspectives, increase participation, and promote watershed stewardship.
Project Start: January 2010
Project Completed : December 2012
Key Dates: MCWD Funded portion - December 2010; Film Distribution-December 2011
Total Funding: $11,470
Metro Blooms
Raingarden Education
Description: Metro Blooms will introduce the community to the beauty and benefits of
raingardens through raingarden education programs. Neighborhood raingarden parties provide
education, installation support and incentives to residents in targeted neighborhoods.
Project Start: February 2010
Project Completed : July 2010
Total Funding: $21,000
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Metro Blooms
Neighborhoods of Raingardens
Description: The will develop an ongoing raingarden evaluation and maintenance program
integrated with their successful Garden Evaluation and Recognition program.
Project Start: February 2010
Project Completed : December 2010
Total Funding: $5,500
Minnesota Waters
MCWD Lake/Stream Associations Reach and Engage New Partners
Description: Minnesota Waters will develop community outreach tools which help citizen-led
associations educate area residents about the value their water body brings to the community.
The trainings, resources and template will recruit and engage new community members in their
water quality protection projects.
Project Start: January 2010
Project Completed : December 2010
Total Funding: $16,600
Orono School District #278
Listening Point
Description: Installation of a dock at LISTENING POINT where students and visitors observe,
learn and reflect upon wetlands. The FRESH WATER Festival will celebrate wetland biodiversity
and the Fresh Water Curriculum will allow lifelong awareness, learning, appreciation and
stewardship of wetlands.
Project Start: February 2010
Project Completed : December 2010
Total Funding: $6,000
St. David’s Center for Child & Family Development
Wetland Restoration and Water Quality Stewardship Project
Description: St. David's will extend water quality education to preschool and school age children,
specifically related to the school forest, wetland restoration and water quality stewardship
projects.
Project Start: March 2010
Project Completed : December 2010
Total Funding: $5,200
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Projects Funded Fall 2008
City of Shorewood
Demonstration Raingarden and hands on Workshop
Description: Offer a hands-on opportunity to participate in creating a demonstration rain garden
in Freeman Park. Residents will work with a landscape architect to determine ideal locations on
their property for a garden and will assist creating a garden.
Project Start: April 2009
Project Completed : December 2011
Total Funding: $5,700
Metro Blooms
Neighborhoods of Raingardens
Description: This was the first year of a three-year approach that includes new neighborhood
and youth partnerships and measurable improvements to Powderhorn Lake. In addition to
informational workshops and on-site design services, hands-on construction services will be
provided for clusters of residential properties and faith-based institutions to install 75 rain
gardens in one sub-watershed of Powderhorn Lake.
Project Started: April 2009
Project Completed : December 2009
Total Funding: $15,000
Metro Blooms
Raingarden Workshop
Description: Rain Garden Workshops to educate thousands of residents within the Minnehaha
Creek Watershed District about how to protect local water resources by constructing rain
gardens. In 2009 we are seeking partnerships with Hennepin County and the workshop host
cities of Minneapolis, Shorewood, Victoria, Minnetonka, St. Louis Park, Plymouth, and Hopkins.
Project Start: April 2009
Project Completed : December 2009
Total Funding: $20,000
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
Waterosity: Go Green with a Splash
Description: Harvest Your Rain, a permanent demonstration area at the Minnesota Landscape
Arboretum, will present ways to help homeowners 1.) return rainwater to the earth via a green
roof, rain barrels and rain gardens and 2.) reduce the runoff to municipal stormwater systems
from rooftops and paved surfaces on their property.
Project Start: May 2009
Project Completed : December 2011
Total Funding: $30,000
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St. David's Child Development and Family Services
Wetland Restoration & Water Quality Stewardship Project
Description: The Wetland Restoration and Water Quality Stewardship Project will extend water
quality education to a broader audience of preschool and school-age children, and implement
the next phase of restoration activities through service learning projects.
Project Started: January 2009
Project Completed : December 2009
Total Funds: $8,700
St. Louis Park - Park and Recreation Advisory Commission
Creek in the Park Clean Up and Resource Mapping Project
Description: A Creek Clean up activity that will involve youth and adult volunteers who will walk
both sides of the Minnehaha Creek in St. Louis Park, clearing litter, trash, and other foreign
objects from the banks and bottom of the Creek.
Project Start: February 2009
Project Completed : December 2009
Total Funding: $2,000
Projects Funded Fall 2007
Alliance for Sustainability
2008 Neighborhood Sustainability Conference & Network and Local Government Training
Description: 25 volunteer teams from neighborhoods, congregations, schools & lake groups in
the watershed will plan spring and summer projects and will receive year-round support to carry
out 25 watershed education and restoration projects. 200 metro city staff will study model
ordinances to implement the watershed goals in their comprehensive plans.
Project Started: February 2008
Project Completed: December 2008
Total Funds: $5,000.00
Bachman’s Inc.
Public Displays of Stormwater Best Management Practices
Description: Bachman’s, Inc., will construct the following exhibits at their Lyndale Avenue Garden
Center: Rain Gardens, Permeable Pavers, Rain Barrel, Green Roof, and Aquatic Plants. The purpose is
to educate the public on the problems associated with storm water runoff and what can be done on
a residential scale to mitigate these problems. Each display will be an accurate representation of how
a homeowner can build or install one of these solutions in their own yard and will explain the
benefits of doing so.Bachman's Conserve Water With Beauty Webpage
Project Start: February 2008
Project Completed : November 2009
Total Funding: $30,000
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Cedar Manor Elementary
Loosestrife Beetle Relocation, Garlic Mustard and Buckthorn Eradication, and Watershed
Instruction
Description: Our main goals are to capture and relocate purple loosestrife beetles, collect and
destroy garlic mustard and buckthorn, and educate and assist students with water quality /
watershed instruction.
Project Start: February 2008
Project Completed : December 2008
Total Funding: $1,075
City of Medina
Holy Name lake City Park Restoration
Description: The City's goal is to promote environmentally-sustainable practices that provide
shoreline restoration and improve water quality at Holy Name Lake City Park.
Project Start: February 2009
Project Completed : December 2009
Total Funding: $12,850
City of Shorewood
Community Education Series: Two Workshops: “Lawn and Landscape Workshops”
Description: Educate homeowners about improving water quality and reducing contamination
through home lawn/garden care and landscaping. Two workshops will be offered and will
include options to purchase reduced cost rain barrels and native plants, and soil test kits.
Project Started: January 2008
Project Completed: December 2008
Total Funds: $5,275.00
Friends of CUE/Metro Blooms
Stormwater Educational Workshops and Annual Blooms Day Education Event
Description: Metro Blooms has collaborated with watershed districts and local government
organizations to educate, motivate, provide incentives for, and recognize community members
who garden with ecologically sound practices. These practices include installing rain gardens,
using native plants that thrive without pesticides and fertilizer, and redirecting downspouts and
water flow to prevent polluted water runoff that damages our watersheds. The locations for our
workshops and seminars that are in MCWD will be located in urban centers to attract and serve
the largest number of citizens possible. These locations will be planned in collaboration with
municipalities and partner organizations. At this time, we confirmed workshop locations in St.
Louis Park, SE Minneapolis (Nokomis), SW Minneapolis (Lynnhurst), and Plymouth. The funding
will be used to hold educational workshops and seminars on stormwater runoff mitigation
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tactics (rain gardens, rain barrels, porous pavement, etc.), print an educational brochure, award
the most watershed-friendly garden awards, and for our annual Blooms Day educational event.
Project Started: February 2008
Project Completed: March 2009
Total Funds: $20,000.00
Great River Greening
Landscape a 4-unit Apartment Building to Treat Stormwater On-Site with Infiltration
Practices and Native Plantings
Description: Landscape of a four-unit apartment building will be transformed from turf grass and
impermeable paving into a site where stormwater is treated on-site with a variety of low-cost
infiltration practices and native plantings. Volunteer installation is planned and design/results of
monitoring will be made available as an online resource.
Project Started: January 2008
Project Completed: December 2009
Total Funds: $7,323.00
Kenny Community School
Educational Signage for Raingardens & Educational Mailings
Description: This project includes the development and installation of permanent educational
signs for the Kenny school rain gardens, development and printing of teacher guides for the rain
gardens, and the printing and mailing of an informational flyer/invitation regarding the
educational signs to every neighborhood household.
Project Started: February 2008
Total Funds: $4,500.00
Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board
Watershed Explorations: 10 Week Youth Education Program
Description: Watershed Explorations is a 10 week education program designed for urban youth
between the ages of 11 and 14 to learn about their neighborhood watershed through hands-on
activities and monitoring, service learning, and neighborhood outreach/leadership. Our 10 week
program in includes 3 locations: the area around Lynnhurst, Pearl, and Nokomis Recreation
Centers.
Project Started: February 2008
Project Completed : December 2009
Total Funds: $7,500.00
St. David’s Child Development & Family Services
Wetland Restoration and Water Quality Stewardship Project
Description: The Wetland Restoration and Water Quality Stewardship Project will further
restore our School Forest Wetland, prevent shoreline erosion, and promote environmental
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stewardship through classroom and community-wide learning activities. Grant funds will
increase public awareness of water quality, coordinate activities to raise awareness, and
increase community access. The Project benefits children enrolled in our preschool program,
children from area school districts, community members and volunteers involved in service
projects, environmental education, and the resulting improved water quality and general
environmental health.
Project Started: January 2008
Project Completed: October 2008
Total Funds: $15,000.00
TonkaBlue
“Pro-Lake in ’08 Campaign”
Description: TonkaBlue consists of several young and ambitious individuals who plan to utilize a
variety of methods that will effectively communicate our message of sustainability,
preservation, and stewardship. Our goals for the Pro-Lake in ’08 Campaign are as follows: Create
and distribute pertinent educational materials that allow students to construct knowledge of
environmental processes and human systems, foster a sense of stewardship for our
environment and a sense of personal responsibility for one’s actions, encourage social activism
and community involvement, and build awareness of pressing local issues.
Project Started: January 2008
Project Completed : June 2010
Total Funds: $5,000.00
Western Hennepin County Pioneers Association
Green Parking Lot
Description: The WHCPA building is at 1953 W. Wayzata Blvd. in Long Lake. Due to Highway 12
construction, there is a need to upgrade the facilities with an addition and site work, including a
parking. As part of the upgrade, WHCPA will install a green parking lot and install interpretive
signage (1 to 2 permanent signs, 18” x 24” or larger) outdoors at the green parking lot site. The
sign(s) will explain the technology of the parking lot, the need for stormwater management, and
the natural resources features on the site.
Project Started: January 2008
Project Completed : December 2009
Total Funds: $20,000.00
Projects Funded Fall 2006
Cermak Rhoades Architects/TCGRC
The Roof-Bloom Project: Guidebook and Workshops
Description: This project will develop a printed guide and workshops for homeowners interested
in installing a green rooftop on a new or existing residential garage or other small outbuilding. A
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demonstration project will be installed, including test plots monitoring the performance of
different plant varieties and growing media.
Project Started: February 2007
Project Completed : December 2011
Total Funds: $30,000.00
Edina Community Foundation/Friends of Edina Nature Center
Edina Carbon Footprint Woods: Plant 50 Trees
Description: In this project we will plant approximately 50 trees near the 62nd Street parking lot
of Pamela Park in Edina. Our goals are to help absorb, and compensate for, the carbon
dioxide/greenhouse gas emissions of Edinans to the atmosphere (some of which will be
monitored); to filter the parking lot’s run-off and other run-off before it reaches the waterway;
to beautify the community; and to continue the upgrading of the Minnehaha Creek watershed
in the Pamela Park area.
Project Started: February 2007
Project Completed: January 2008
Total Funds: $5,000.00
Eisenhower Elementary School
Phase Two of the “We Are Water” Project
Description: Phase Two of the “We are Water” project will continue to build on the success of
Phase One (refer to the project report for an in-depth account of the first phase). The overall
goal of this educational play area is to inspire awareness and prompt lifetime conversation
between children, teachers, parents and families about personal stewardship of our water. The
Stepping Stones program is a pre-school program housed in the Hopkins schools -- in this case
Eisenhower Elementary -- making the play area is available to the 600 children and their families
as well.
Project Started: January 2007
Project Completed: October 2008
Total Funds: $15,945.00
Folwell Middle School
“The Rain Garden Story”
Description: Our goal is to create sustainable science curriculum development for permanent
rain and vegetable gardens. We will conduct soil studies that examine interrelationships
between soil and water. We will also include a “story stone path” displaying the water cycle, in
addition to various service learning projects that will be carried out by students.
Project Started: February 2007
Project Completed : June 2010
Total Funds: $5,546.50
Updated on Thursday, January 24, 2013
In the Heart of the Beast Theatre
“Invigorate the Common Well” Production
Description: A grant from the Cynthia Krieg Watershed Stewardship Fund will support Invigorate
the Common Well, an episodic production that will educate audiences about the city’s drinking
water source. Blending performance, science, and civic engagement, Invigorate the Common
Well offers an accessible and engaging means to examine issues of protecting, conserving and
managing our watershed. The production will be presented as part of our company’s 2007
performance season and is intended for both youth and adult audiences.
Project Started: January 2007
Project Completed: July 2007
Total Funds: $5,000.00
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Lake Minnetonka Garden Club
Lakeshore Public Information Project
Description: This project will be launched as part of an education exhibit open to the public
during a three-day flower show at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. Following the exhibit,
outreach materials (a video and supplementary bookmark) will be distributed to citizens,
municipalities and organizations throughout the Lake Minnetonka region, including the City of
Minnetonka and Minnehaha Creek Watershed District.
Project Started: February 2007
Project Completed: July 2008
Total Funds: $4,267.00
Metro Blooms/Friends of CUE
Metro/Minneapolis Blooms Raingarden Workshop Program
Description: Minneapolis / Metro Blooms requests funding from the Minnehaha Creek
Watershed District to expand the delivery of MB’s highly successful Rain Garden Workshops
(RGWs) Program. To respond to the burgeoning demand for these tested education programs,
MB plans to serve participants across the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District in collaboration
with community organizations and volunteers from February through October of 2007. In the
MCWD, we plan to provide educational workshops serving at least 525 people in this watershed;
small-group coaching seminars serving at least 420 people, at least 50 on-site requested Rain
Garden Consultations and 52 Rain Garden Installation and Native Plant Grants. We will develop
personal outreach to citizens in at least six MCWD communities. We will work with the MCWD
to determine locations for workshops and coaching sessions. The goals of these workshops,
piloted in 2005, are to educate as many citizens as possible to make positive and powerful
changes in their landscaping choices by installing rain gardens in order to increase storm water
infiltration directly into the aquifer and decrease polluted run-off into local storm water
management systems. MB will offer citizens easy, compelling, cost-effective and
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environmentally sound land management practices, while helping to build and strengthen
relationships within the community.
Project Started: January 2007
Project Completed: June 2007
Total Funds: $25,894.00
St. David's Child Development & Family Services
Wetland Restoration and Stewardship Project
Description: The Wetland Restoration and Stewardship Project joins educators, preschool
children, and community members in an effort to restore our School Forest Wetland and build
environmental stewardship through curriculum, activities and service learning.
Project Started: February 2007
Project Completed: September 2007
Total Funds: $15,000.00
TonkaBlue
Preservation Through Education Project
Description: TonkaBlue consists of several young and ambitious individuals who plan to utilize a
variety of methods that together will effectively communicate our message of sustainability,
preservation, and stewardship. Our goals for the Preservation through Education Project are as
follows: create and distribute pertinent educational materials that allow students to construct
knowledge of environmental processes and human systems; foster a sense of stewardship for
our environment and a sense of personal responsibility for one’s actions; encourage social
activism and community involvement; build awareness of pressing local issues; and establish the
TonkaBlue brand as a symbol of those ideas through auxiliary products.
Project Started: January 2007
Project Completed : June 2010
Total Funds: $2,550.00
Projects Funded Fall 2005
Carondelet Catholic School
7th Grade Water Quality Monitoring & Watershed Unit, and 5th and 6th Grades Minnehaha
Creek Watershed Day – Raingarden Planting
Description: Implementation of watershed service learning with macro invertebrate sampling,
soil test kit distribution, and native plantings.
Project Started: January 2006
Project Completed: September 2006
Total Funds: $1,400.00
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Eisenhower Elementary School & Community Center
“We are Water” Project
Description: Design and construct a “We Are Water” watershed themed playground to educate
children and families in the community about water quality and water resource protection.
Project Started: February 2006
Project Completed: November 2010
Total Funds: $6,695.64
Friends of CUE/Minneapolis Blooms
Educational Project: Raingarden Workshops
Description: Conduct rain garden community workshops and provide technical assistance from
landscape architects. Participant projects will receive ‘mini-grants’ to install rain gardens.
Project Started: January 2006
Project Completed: August 2007
Total Funds: $18,490.00
Fulton Neighborhood Association
Fulton’s Rainwater Management Project
Description: Provide education and assistance to neighborhood residents for a decrease in the
amount of stormwater runoff to improve the water quality of Lake Harriet and Minnehaha
Creek by gutter redirection, rain barrels and rain gardens.
Project Started: February 2006
Total Funds: $9,675.00
Gleason Lake Improvement Association
Protect the Source: Education and Intervention to Reduce Pollution to Gleason Lake
Description: Connecting students and lakeshore residents with the process of documenting and
assessing the flow of pollutants into Gleason Lake with the partnership of the City of Plymouth
to install stormwater reduction practices.
Project Started: January 23, 2006
Total Funds: $16,220.00
Great River Greening
Chapter in the Book: Plants for Stormwater Design – Volume II
Description: Produce "Plants for Stormwater Design Volume II," including a chapter dedicated to
the value of trees in stormwater management.
Project Started: February 2006
Project Completed: September 2007
Total Funds: $12,600.00
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Kenny Neighborhood Association
Grass Lake Restoration
Description: Restoration of Grass Lake by developing a comprehensive plan focused on removal
of invasive species and promoting native vegetation, shoreline stabilization and a widespread
community education effort.
Project Started: February 2006
Project Completed: February 2008
Total Funds: $7,500.00
Minnesota Waters
Educating Today’s Youth to Become Tomorrow’s Watershed Stewards
Description: Conduct teacher workshops on the Minnesota Lake Ecology curriculum and lead
schools in the lake-related community service learning projects.
Project Started: February 2006
Project Completed: November 2007
Total Funds: $8,250.00
MTS Communication Arts & Technology High School
Water Quality Monitoring Project using Macro invertebrates at the Minnehaha Creek
Description: Begin a student stream monitoring site in Minnehaha Creek partnered with the
River Watch program to assess the biodiversity of macro invertebrates and monitor water
quality parameters.
Project Started: February 2006
Total Funds: $4,500.00
Orono Intermediate School
Freshwater Festival
Description: Integrate water studies into art, science, and music with a community wide water
festival in Spring 2006.
Project Started: January 2006
Project Completed: July 2006
Total Funds: $8,375.00
Projects Funded Spring 2005
East Harriet - Farmstead Neighborhood Association
Bryant/Barton Environmental Awareness Team!
Description: Bryant/BEAT! (Bryant/Barton Environmental Awareness Team) is a collaborative
project between East Harriet Farmstead Neighborhood Association (EHFNA) and Barton Open
School where students, school staff and EHFNA staff and volunteers are creating and
participating in a new "clean water curriculum," researching, creating and distributing clean
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water educational materials, holding workshops, and posing everyday actions for neighborhood
residents and business owners to improve water quality in the community.
Project Started: May 31, 2005
Total Funds: $10,604.00
Friends of CUE/Minneapolis Blooms
Native Plant Grants for Raingarden Workshop Participants
Description: The Minneapolis Blooms program is conducting a series of 17 workshops on how to
create rain gardens utilizing native plants. As an incentive for homeowners to implement what
they learned in the workshops, a $50 grant will be provided to gardeners to reimburse them for
their first $50 purchase of native perennial plants to be planted in their own rain garden.
Project Started: April 2005
Project Completed: March 2006
Total Funds: $3,534.00
Great River Greening
Workshop Series For Professional Contractors
Description: Great River Greening promotes innovative landscape design and maintenance.
Project will include development and presentation of a series of workshops for professionals
and contractors to explain the basic principles and benefits of native plant and natural system
design and provide information on how to successfully design, install and maintain native
plantings.
Project Started: April 2005
Project Completed: February 2007
Total Funds: $3,000.00
Projects Funded Fall 2004
Park Nicollet Heart Center at Methodist Hospital
Wetland Artwork and Narrative Installations
Description: Narratives displayed alongside wetland inspired artwork in common areas of the
new building to increase awareness of this precious resource.
Project Started: October 2004
Total Funds: $9,300.00
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Projects Funded Summer 2004
Dharma Field Zen Center
Integrated Water Management and Landscaping Project
Description: The project initiated an integrated water management/landscape design focused
on reducing water runoff through gutters and rain gardens, using native habitat, including urban
prairie.
Project Started: July 30, 2004
Project Completed: November 2004
Total Funds: $8,185.50
In the Heart of the Beast Theatre
Summer Art Programs for Inner-City Youth
Description: The Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre created two summer arts
programs, "Art Bus" and "Lake Street Theater Club," for inner city youth that examined
watershed protection issues using puppet theater.
Project Started: August 2004
Project Completed: December 2004
Total Funds: $2,000.00
Park Nicollet Heart & Vascular Center
Interpretive Signage, Rain Gardens and Vegetated Buffers
Description: The Heart & Vascular Center at Methodist Hospital provided interpretive signage to
help the public understand how rain gardens and vegetated buffers on the property can
enhance water quality.
Project Started: August 2004
Project Completed: February 2006
Total Funds: $2,500.00
People for Parks/Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board
Longfellow Gardens in Minnehaha Park
Description: Stabilization for 237 linear feet of shoreline on the north bank of Minnehaha Creek
at Longfellow Gardens area, install interpretive panels focusing on shoreline stabilization and
native plantings.
Project Started: March 2005
Project Completed: January 2008
Total Funds: $22,000.00
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Projects Funded Fall 2003
City of Medina
Best Management Practices Education Program for Horse Owners
Description: The main purpose of Medina’s project was to inform and educate horse owners,
community leaders, and the general public about best management practices for rearing and
maintaining horses. One of the primary goals, for example, was to encourage environmentally
friendly manure and pasture management practices with the end result being protection of the
environment and improved water quality. In addition to the creation of an Education and
Resource Guide, workshops have been conducted and educational material has been distributed
to Medina residents these past several years.
Project Started: February 2004
Project Completed: March 2011
Total Funds: $7,000.00
Conservation League of Edina
Edina Lakes Waters Quality Testing and Public Education Project
Description: Citizen monitoring project on Pamela Lake and Lake Harvey in Edina. Presentation
and educational materials were also created and shared with the Edina community.
Project Started: February 5, 2004
Project Completed: May 2005
Total Funds: $3,680.00
Projects Funded Summer 2003
El Colegio Charter School
El Colegio NPS Project
Description: The El Colegio Charter School converted approximately 10,000 square feet of
asphalt to pervious surface. The asphalt was replaced with two rain gardens/wetlands and
upland garden space for native prairie and cultivated gardens. Approximately 2,500 square feet
of this area will be designated as a wetland or wet garden. The site will be used as an on-going
demonstration site for all interested people.
Project Started: September 2003
Project Completed : January 2005
Total Funds: $8,000.00
Kenwood School
Lake of the Isles/Minnehaha Creek Watershed Project
Description: Kenwood School expanded the existing 5th grade Mississippi River Project. The
grade 3 component will feature a comprehensive study of the Lake of the Isles. A CD was
produced featuring 3rd grade original songs and poetry honoring this lake area and our urban
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watershed. The children created a booth for the Kenwood Learning Festival in May 2004 to
promote behaviors that will contribute to the health of the watershed.
Project Started: August 2003
Total Funds: $6,885.00
Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy
Natural Landscaping and Runoff Abatement Demonstration in St. Louis Park, MN
Description: Installation of three rain gardens on the site. Runoff from lawns, rooftops, walks,
and parking lots was directed to the rain gardens for treatment. 1.1 acres of lawn was converted
to native vegetation and no-mow turf that will receive runoff and direct it into the swales and
rainwater gardens. The combination of gardens can remove 50 to 85 percent of the organic
matter, sediment, phosphorus, and hydrocarbons before runoff enters storm sewers. The
project area is located adjacent to Highway 100, just south of I-394 at the Lutheran Church of
the Reformation.
Project Started: October 2003
Total Funds: $7,524.00
Projects Funded Fall 2002
Crystal-Pierz Marine
2003 Lake Minnetonka Clean-Up Event (Expansion)
Description: Expand the Lake Minnetonka Clean-up event to actively include area residents and
business owners in 2003. Promotional and educational elements of the program focuses on
water quality protection, and includes mailings, signage, ads, and editorial-driven media
coverage which will mention MCWD as having partially funded.
Project Started: April 2003
Event Date: June 21, 2003
Total Funds: $4,200.00
Gleason Lake Improvement Association and DNR
Luce Line Zero Runoff Demonstration Project
Description: The Gleason Lake Improvement Association and the MN DNR installed a runoff and
natural treatment demonstration plot at the Luce Line parking lot in Plymouth. The funds will be
used to install two drainage filtration and infiltration basins containing native vegetation (rain
gardens).
Project Started: June 2003
Project Completed: December 2003
Total Funds: $6,000.00
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Hopkins High School Freshwater Academy
Freshwater Academy (Watershed Education Projects)
Description: Interdisciplinary environmental science program focusing on freshwater ecology
and water quality. Forty five students all day for 9 weeks twice per year. Those 90 students then
educate 120 Hopkins third graders for a half day about what they have learned. Then they meet
with city officials and staff to talk about enacting ordinances to protecting water quality. Funds
pay for equipment, educational materials, and honorariums for speakers.
Project Started: May 2003
Total Funds: $4,000.00
Intermediate School District 287
The Water Quality Technology Project
Description: Special needs and low incidence learners will promote collaborative use of
technology-assisted date collection in science and mathematics classrooms for schools in the
MCWD District. Target is 560 students who will analyze data and design community service
projects to address the water quality issues they learn.
Project Started: May 2003
Project Completed: April 2009
Total Funds: $4,675.00
Minnesota Groundwater Association
Water Resources of the Minnehaha Creek Watershed
Description: MGWA worked with about 50 students from 3 high schools in the District to assess
ground water resources, including stream flow data and water levels. They calculated the
distribution of water quality parameters in ground and surface water, and calculated
contributions of groundwater to streamflow and water quality of Minnehaha Creek. Students
disseminated the gathered information to the public and the MCWD.
Project Started: May 2003
Project Completed: February 2009
Total Funds: $2,500.00
Trillium Bay Homeowner's Association
Trillium Bay Homeowners Association Shoreline Stabilization and Restoration Project
Description: Stabilize the water levels of Trillium Bay pond to eliminate the continuing shoreline
erosion; restore shoreline to its original contour and stabilize it with plantings of native grasses
and vegetation. Plantings will create a wetland buffer where none presently exists; and improve
water quality of the pond and discharge to Lake Minnetonka through benefits of native
vegetation, removal of rough fish and construction of lakeside weir.
Project Started: March 2003
Total Funds: $19,000.00
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Projects Funded Spring 2002
East Calhoun Community Organization
Gateway Sculpture Park
Description: The neighborhood organization constructed two storm water swales on the south
side and east side of the Gateway sculpture park to control erosion and rain water runoff.
Project Started: July 2002
Total Funds: $5,441.00
Fulton Neighborhood Association
Fulton’s Landscaping for Rainwater Management Project
Description: Fulton coordinated a comprehensive project to educate and motivate homeowners
to make improvements to their property utilizing rainwater management principles. Project
components included education, consulting, and matching grants for homeowner rainwater
management projects.
Project Started: July 2002
Project Completed: April 2009
Total Funds: $2,500.00
Kenwood School
The Kenwood Calhoun Wetland Project
Description: Kenwood students conducted a scientific study of the SW Calhoun Pond Project,
learning how pollutants settle out in the ponds and the natural filtering of water by aquatic
plants. They wrote letters to public officials encouraging them to support programs that
promote clean water. Students also took two field trips, one to the Science museum and one Big
River Journey trip.
Project Started: August 2002
Total Funds: $2,280.00
Linden Hills Neighborhood Association
Linden Hills Buckthorn Bust
Description: The Linden Hills Neighborhood Association will continue efforts to remove Common
Buckthorn and Glossy Buckthorn from residences in the Linden Hills neighborhood. They
completed a yard-by-yard survey of the neighborhood (begun last year) to educate neighbors
about the problems of buckthorn, its identification and proper removal. They assisted seniors
and disabled residents in removing the buckthorn, and provided a licensed tree company's
services to haul away all debris after removal from property.
Project Started: July 2002
Project Completed: February 2003
Total Funds: $3,760.00
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Minneapolis Public Schools
Watershed Education through the Rivers Institute
Description: Joe Alfano attended the Rivers Institute at Hamline University during the summer
of 2002. He will share what he learned with teachers in the Minneapolis schools.
Project Started: July 31, 2002
Total Funds: $400.00
Standish Ericsson Neighborhood Association
SENA/MPRB Minnehaha Creek Invasive Species Removal and Shoreline Restoration
Project “Creek Rangers”
Description: SENA implemented a public education campaign to inform residents about the
benefits of native habitat restoration along Minnehaha Creek shoreline. They also established a
"Creek Rangers" volunteer program where neighbors will participate in clean-ups and
community education activities.
Project Started: July 2002
Event Date: October 2003
Total Funds: $3,100.00
Projects Funded Fall 2001
Benilde-St. Margaret School
Watershed Education
Description: Students continued restoration of the wetlands and holding ponds on school
campus, including: native plantings; establishment of a buffer zone between the parking lot,
athletic field and holding pond; biological control of purple loosestrife and buckthorn removal.
In addition, students researched, planned and created a web page on water quality.
Project Started: December 2001
Project Completed: January 2003
Total Funds: $2,750.00
Cedar Manor School
Waters to the Sea CD-Rom purchase
Description: Purchased Waters to the Sea CD-rom lab pack for classroom use.
Project Date: December 13, 2001
Total Funds: $329.00
Center for Neighborhoods
Neighborhood Environmental Sustainability Conference
Description: A conference on environmental issues for neighborhood organizations and citizen
groups in Minneapolis was convened in January 2000 to link neighborhoods with environmental
founders and resource organizations.
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Project Started: December 2001
Project Completed : April 2002
Event Date: January 26, 2002
Total Funds: $3,000.00
Hennepin Conservation District
River Watch Program 2001-2002
Description: Students collected long-term water quality data that is useful in resource
management decisions. Results are reported to local agencies and general public. Seven schools
from the MCWD were involved.
Project Started: November 2001
Project Completed: January 2003
Total Funds: $6,750.00
Minnewashta Elementary School
Wetlands Watch Program
Description: 5th grade students organized and gave tours of their adopted wetland behind the
school. They taught other students to conduct water quality tests and biodiversity studies of a
wetland. They also worked with other schools in the district to protect and restore
environmental integrity of wetlands in and around their communities. Students made brochures
and posters to distribute within the community, and wrote articles to local newspapers to
increase public awareness about the health of wetlands.
Project Started: January 2002
Total Funds: $3,100.00
Powderhorn Park Neighborhood Association
Bi-Lingual Public Education Campaign and Earth Day Clean-Up Event
Description: Working with El Colegio Charter School, the Powderhorn Park Neighborhood
Association (PPNA)developed a multi-lingual public education campaign aimed at informing
non-English speaking residents about water quality protection.
Project Started: January 2002
Project Completed: June 2002
Total Funds: $1,800.00
Roosevelt High School
Watershed Education
Description: Students collected chemical water data, macroinvertebrate specimens in Lake
Hiawatha, Minnehaha Creek and the Mississippi River. Students presented results in a
community newsletter. Results will be incorporated into GIS maps and posted on a web site
linked to MCWD web site, presented to parents and local elementary and middle school
students.
Project Started: December 2001
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Project Completed: January 2003
Total Funds: $2,910.00
The Green Institute
Neighborworks Week lake Street Clean-Up
Description: Educational materials on watershed protection were translated into non-English
languages through working with immigrant populations from East Africa, Southeast Asia and
Latin America. These same groups will be involved in storm drain stenciling in their
neighborhoods (South Minneapolis), with the stenciling being done in several languages.
Project Started: December 2001
Project Completed : Summer 2002
Total Funds: $4,313.00
Projects Funded Spring 2001
Art Start
Watershed Education and Clean-Up Art Project
Description: Art Start partnered with Barton School to study water quality, do a clean-up at Lake
Harriet, and create a sculpture with the found objects and debris. The sculpture will be
displayed at various sites in the neighborhood prior to permanent display. Students designed
water quality protections flyers to be distributed at the exhibit site.
Project Started: July 2001
Project Completed : June 2002
Total Funds: $2,100.00
City of Minnetonka
Minnehaha Creek/ St. David’s Streambank Restoration
Description: The City did a planting of the streambank along Minnehaha Creek with native
grasses and wildflowers (buckthorn was removed in summer 2000). Cub Scouts and St. David's
students were involved in planting.
Project Started: October 2001
Project Completed: June 2002
Total Funds: $2,500.00
Ericsson School
Inquiry Based learning Experiences for 5th Graders
Description: Two teachers attended the Hamline University Rivers Institute in July. They will
utilize Rivers to the Sea CD-Roms to teach students about water quality protection. Students
conducted water testing, clean-ups along Minnehaha Creek, documented landforms along the
creek, and posted results on the MCWD web site. Families were invited to participate.
Project Started: August 2001
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Project Completed: June 2002
Total Funds: $2,215.00
Hale, Page, Diamond Lake Community Association
Buckthorn Removal Project, Native Plantings, and Clean-Up Projects
Description: Numerous water quality protection projects involving local volunteers, including
erosion control plantings around Diamond lake, non-native species abatement, and public
education about water quality protection.
Project Started: July 2001
Project Completed: August 2002
Total Funds: $2,500.00
Hill School
Clean-ups, Storm-Drain markings, and Classes
Description: Students adopted Nelson Beach Park on Long Lake. They did cleanups, stenciling,
and studied water quality protection. They made a presentation to Long Lake administrators
about chemical use in the park, created posters for local stores, write articles for local papers,
and designed a brochure for local citizens. They participated in City Council meetings to discuss
water quality issues and present their findings and recommendations.
Project Started: September 2001
Project Completed: June 2001
Total Funds: $2,000.00
Hopkins High School Freshwater Academy
River Watch Sampling and Field Trip to Eagle Bluff
Description: The Freshwater Academy is an interdisciplinary environmental science program
focusing on freshwater ecology and water quality. The goal is to help students become
community leaders and informed citizens with regard to water. The funding paid for water
testing, clean-ups, purple loosestrife abatement, peer teaching at elementary school in
Minneapolis.
Project Started: August 2001
Project Completed: June 2002
Total Funds: $6,150.00
New Earth Partnership
Faith-based Congregational Watershed Improvement and Water Quality Education
Description: The New Earth Partnership includes four churches. This project includes two
demonstration landscaping projects, one at a church on Minnehaha creek, another in St Louis
Park. Signage and public education to members of congregations about water quality protection
included in the project. Funding pays for planting supplies, signage, brochures and a planting
consultant.
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Project Started: July 2001
Project Completed: June 2002
Total Funds: $3,400.00
Orono Middle School
Clean-ups and Invasive Education
Description: Middle school students did a removal of buckthorn from wetland edges, purple
loosestrife control at Lake Classen, shoreline cleanups along Long Lake. Includes noxious weed
removal adjacent to sediment basin at Old Crystal Bay Rd and Cty Rd 6. Students wrote articles
about activities for school newsletters and local newspapers.
Project Started: October 2001
Project Completed: June 2002
Total Funds: $1,278.00
Westwood Nature Center
Canoe Trailer for Creek Access to Support Education Plans
Description: Westwood Nature Center purchased a canoe trailer. This allowed them to do trash
pick-ups along Minnehaha creek, educational canoe trips, and water quality monitoring. This
allows the staff to expand programming beyond the nature center to the creek.
Project Started: November 2001
Project Completed: May 2002
Total Funds: $1,240.00
Projects Funded in Fall 2000
Cedar Manor School
Watershed Education
Description: Students to collect loosestrife beetles and release them in areas around school,
clean up street debris to keep it from going into storm gutters, and do a storm drain stenciling
project. This is all incorporated into the classroom curriculum.
Project Started: February 2002
Total Funds: $379.00
Hiawatha Elementary School
Rivers of Life, The Mississippi River Festival
Description: Students participated in a weeklong "Rivers of Life-Celebration of the Mississippi
River" with Hamline University Center for Global Environmental Education. Students did storm
drain stenciling and integrated water quality education into the curriculum.
Project Started: November 2000
Project Completed: December 2001
Event Date: May 4, 2001
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Total Funds: $500.00
Hamline Center for Global Environmental Education
Watershed Partners: Non-Point Source Watershed Kiosk
Description: Hamline CGEE purchased an book laptop to create a watershed multimedia Kiosk,
with interactive educational experiences about non-point source pollution. The kiosk was on
display at libraries and events in the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District.
Project Started: January 2001
Project Completed: December 2001
Total Funds: $1,500.00
Projects Funded in Spring 2000
Ericsson School
Mississippi River/ Minnehaha Creek Project
Description: Heighten the awareness of students and increase their understanding of water
quality issues, best management practices, and their proximity to the Minnehaha Creek and
Mississippi Watersheds.
Project Started: September 2000
Project Completed: May 2001
Total Funds: $1,270.00
Ramsey IFAL
Water Quality Monitoring and Education
Description: To meet science standards through hands on, real world data collection and
analyzing; and to contribute to the database for water quality of the watershed.
Project Started: June 2000
Total Funds: $361.90
Projects Funded in Fall 1999
Gleason Lake Improvement Association
Lake Users and Sub-watershed
Description: Create and mail approximately 6,000 lake user surveys to the Gleason Lake Sub-
watershed District. In addition to surveying lake users, Gleason Lake Improvement Association
plans to education homeowners and business within the watershed about best management
practices to keep water on their property and water conservation techniques.
Project Started: January 2000
Project Completed: April 2000
Total Funds: $2,000.00
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Minnetonka Middle School
Watershed Stewardship Program
Description: The science department started a Watershed Stewardship Program at both middle
schools. Students used USGS topographical maps to construct 3-D models of their assigned
areas around Lake Minnetonka. They also collected and tested soil and water samples using a
Limnology Test kit.
Project Started: September 1999
Project Completed: May 2000
Total Funds: $2,033.40
Westwood Hills Environmental Education Center
Watershed Units 6th Grade, Jr. High, and High School
Description: The primary purpose of this project is to aid the St. Louis Park School District in
fulfilling or meeting graduation standards. This ongoing watershed project currently has 2 target
audiences, with the possibility of adding a third. Funds would be used to replace broken/lost
equipment, purchase new resources/reference materials, and purchase additional supplies and
equipment to facilitate greater individualized learning.
Project Started: On-going
Total Funds: $658.60
Projects Funded Spring 1999
Hennepin Conservation District
Macro-invertebrate monitoring and Education Project
Description: The major purpose of this project is to provide opportunities for high school &
college students to participate in stream monitoring and to gather data on the water quality of
Minnehaha Creek and its tributaries. Twice a year river monitoring is required for all
participants, In addition to this the schools have the opportunity to design their own
stewardship project or participate in one of our stewardship projects. For all of the participating
schools we provide equipment, training and supervision.
Project Started: On-going
Total Funds: $2,000.00
Minnetonka Public Schools
Pondwater Tour
Description: We plan to gather data on water quality by collecting macroinvertebrates via
HesterDendy collectors, testing water samples for nitrates and dissolved oxygen levels, lead
discussions on youth stewardship and practice youth stewardship by the distribution of
educational flyers to property owners in the Minnehaha Creek Watershed in the areas of our
own neighborhood as well as the off campus sites. The cities of Minnetonka, Deephaven,
Shorewood, Woodland, Greenwood, and Tonka Bay do not have storm sewers. As the project
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grows we will be in contact with the cities of Hopkins, St Louis Park, Edina, and Minneapolis to
obtain permission to stencil drains in their communities.
Project Started: September 1999
Total Funds: $2,000.00
Park Valley Catholic School
Wet and Wild Wednesday
Description: The purpose of this project is to make the students aware of the similarities and
differences in a natural and man-made ponds and observe through weekly fall and spring visits,
the seasonal changes. Water samples are collected, brought back to the classrooms, and tested
for pH, sulfate, sulfite, and ammonia levels. Air and water temperatures are taken at the sites.
Pond life is identified through field guides.
Project Started: March 1999
Total Funds: $241.40
Washburn High School
Macro-invertebrate Sampling and habitat Studies of Minnehaha Creek
Description: Through the Hennepin Conservation District a classroom has been monitoring a site
on Minnehaha Creek with students by sampling and identifying macroinvertebrates. The
objectives are to expose students to a valid sampling technique used to monitor the
environment, gain awareness of the organisms inhabiting the creek and surrounding habitat,
and gain an understanding of the urban ecosystem and a desire to protect the environment and
continue to learn about the natural world.
Project Started: On-going
Total Funds: $1,100.00
Projects Funded Fall 1998
Hamline University - Center for Global Environmental Education
West Metropolitan Education Program Integration Project
Description: The project will build upon an earlier program to continue building relationships
between twenty-four teachers representing seven districts from the inner city and suburban
areas that are all within the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District by bringing teachers and their
students together for joint environmental education field trips. Teachers from the inner city will
be paired with teachers from the suburbs for a minimum of one field trip that will take students
and their teacher to the partner school, or to take the partnering schools to a non-school site of
choice such as a nature area.
Project Started: October 1998
Total Funds: $2,000.00
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Kimberly Lone Elementary Science Club
Water Quality Awareness Activities
Description: The Kimberly Lane Science Club students will collect and record information using
HesterDendy sampling devices to learn what insects are available in the creek and in what
numbers and variety.
Project Started: September 1999
Total Funds: $883.16
Westwood Hills Nature Center
Watershed Units: Grades 5th and 6th
Description: Students will be introduced to the concept of a watershed, locate their residence
on a map, locate the catch basin closest to their residence, determine if they live in Bassett
Creek or Minnehaha Creek Watershed District, sample and classify aquatic invertebrates using
HesterDendy's sample temperature, clarity, DO, and macrophytes.
Project Started: March 1999
Total Funds: $1,886.45
Projects Funded Spring 1998
Benilde-St. Margaret's School
The Lake and Stream Chemical and Biological Quality Analysis Laboratory
Description: The major purpose of the project is for students at BSM to continue to study
freshwater ecology and assess impacts land use may have on local water bodies. Students study
physical, biological, and chemical characteristics of Minnehaha Creek and Twin Lake ecosystems.
Students will survey habitat characteristics, collect and identify benthic macroinvertebrates, test
water samples, and communicate the results in group forums and to interested agencies.
Project Started: September 1999
Total Funds: $2,000.00