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ear i - .r,:_ .; •-'~ ~, ~~ i __. ___-~_.z..=b 2~.~_"'_"~~__~ Kanaranzi-Little Rock Watershed -Kanaranzi-Little Rock WD The Kanaranzi-Little Rack watershed is located in southwest Minnesota. It covers 198,400 acres in Nobles and Rock Counties. One of the major programs of the K-LRWD is the P.L. 566 Watershed Project. The watershed district provides local funds for the administration of the P.L. 566 Project, which includes hiring a local contracting officer. The project was the first in the nation designed to prevent flooding and erosion by installing conservation practices through long-term contracts with landowners. Landowners with serious soil erosion problems located within the watershed boundaries were eligible to participate in the land treatment program. These contracts include one or more practices and are written with conservation measures available, for up to 65% cost-sharing. The landowner makes the final decision about the land use and conservation practices to be installed, based upon the alternatives provided by the soil conservationist. To date, the project has received $1,867,071.71 to fund contracts. The K-LRWD has also developed a local cost-share program to address the needs of landowners needing a single practice on farmland that did not rank high enough to be eligible for along-term contract. The K-LRWD money was combined with a state grant to provide landowners with 75%cost-share. The District has provided 85 landowners with this type of assistance spending a total of $149,685.00. The District was also the first in the state to establish a conservation use acres program. This program provided an incentive payment to farmers to plant small grain instead of row crops on. sites where terraces and grassed waterways were planned. This allowed the NRCS to have a much longer construction season to apply conservation practices. The District has funded 55 conservation use acres contracts in the watershed for a total of $16,977.00. The District also offers a well sealing program, tree planting grants, and an incentive program for riparian buffers and filter strips. They have been involved with local education programs. They updated their rules in 1997 to require permits for any type of land. disturbance in the watershed. Silver Creek Corridor Management Plan -Carnelian-Marine WD The Silver Creek corridor is one of two major watercourses in the CMWD. Five shallow water lakes and numerous wetlands outlet to Silver Creek, that ultimately drains to St. Croix River. Besides performing channel maintenance and monitoring water quality, the 2000 Overall Plan has as a priority to promote a natural corridor and/or protective status for Silver Creek. The plan furthers the work from the natural Resource Inventory and a Spring Creek Study. The plan includes a corridor and stream assessment, hydrologic and hydraulic study, and a shallow lakes assessment. It lays out eight general recommendations and 22 specific recommendations that are prioritized. The plan also ranks areas according to protection priority and recommends conservation easements, deed restrictions, and mutual covenants. Project of a Year e Whisky CreekZYibutaries WaterResourceMamgement-Buffalo-Red River WD '! Using a comprehensive approach through the Mediation PT process, design a project with features that will provide both flood damage reduction anal natural resource enhancements. Work items include channel restoration with "east" tributary having a sinuous pilot channel within a higher and larger floodplain channel, setback levees, 800 acres of Wetland Reserve Program (WRP) restorations, channel buffer strips, diking to ...,,~,_ ~ r ~ ~.~_.:.~- .~.~ control flooding from Stony Creek, a dry impoundment capable of holding 346 acre-feet of ~ .~ ~ ~., ' ~-.L.,,.,,~w~: ~? water, reducing the 25-year, 24-hour event peak flows by 79%, and two farmstead ring ~~ `""~`..^~; dikes. Initially, landowners wanted. to petition for laterals to Clay County Ditch No. 34, using Drainage Law. The BRRWD was able to convince them to let us use the PT format to design a multifaceted project that the downstream landowners also supported. The project includes amonitoring/evaluation component, for all construction phases.