JOE BARTEN DAKOTA COUNTY SWCD LANDSCAPING FOR CLEAN WATER (LCW) • PROGRAM OVERVIEW • PROCESS • OUTCOMES
What is Landscaping for Clean Water?
LCW Program Goals Goal 1 - Collaboration & Financial Savings - Multiple project partners, “seat at table” Goal 2 - Protect Surface Water Quality - Measureable reductions Goal 3 - Civic Engagement & Public Outreach - Opportunity for ACTION, not just education Goal 4 - Involvement in Watershed Planning - Combine LMRWMO, City,& SWCD goals Goal 5 - Land & Habitat Protection - Native plants on landscape
LCW Program Partners
What is Landscaping for Clean Water?
Introduction Presentation Burnsville 10 Introduction Presentations Held throughout Dakota County to discuss water ISSUES, loss of pollinator habitat and native plants, and SOLUTIONS to those problems Eagan Dakota County Library
Pre-Settlement Native Plant Communities Big Woods Oak Openings & Barrens Prairie Wet Meadow Native Plant Community Plants suited to a certain area with compatible soils, topography, fire, climate, and water needs or tolerances
Present Day Plant Communities Remaining Native 6% Plant Communities Landscape changed for 94% human needs: Drained, paved, graded, or plowed How can we connect the dots? Source: MnDNR
Roots of Native Prairie Plants Lawn Grass Kentucky Bluegrass (lawn grass) 15’+ Depth Conservation Research Institute and Heidi Natura
Environmental Impacts of Urban Development More Impervious = More Runoff
Increased runoff with sediment, nutrients, and pollutants disrupts natural processes Valley Lake, Lakeville
Install a Raingarden! Just like a regular planting, but able to absorb rainwater and breakdown pollutants Concept - Gregg Thompson, Illustration - Taina Litwak, Animation - Ron Struss
Value / Function of Native Shorelines Shoreline Vegetation Tree Stumps (erosion-control, water quality, wildlife habitat, high Emergent Vegetation (wildlife habitat & plant diversity = high water quality) (water quality, erosion- wildlife diversity) control & wildlife habitat) Drifted-in Logs & Snags (wildlife habitat, erosion control & water quality)
What is Landscaping for Clean Water?
Design Workshops Apple Valley Burnsville Thompson County Park – West St. Paul 10 Design Workshops Collaboratively design projects tailored to landowner’s property and goals.
Example Planting Plans
What is Landscaping for Clean Water?
1 3 2 What to Submit 1. Grant Application 4 2. Cost Estimate 3. Planting Plan 4. Map 1 with Project Location
What is Landscaping for Clean Water?
Project Installation Oversight 1. Project Layout 2. Midpoint Check 3. Final Project Check
What is Landscaping for Clean Water?
LCW Program Outcomes • Partnerships • Projects on the Land Stormwater benefits Pollinator habitat Reduced erosion • Engaged Residents Before… After… Next Year Mt. Calvary
2016 LCW Program Figures 273 Introductory Workshop Participants 118 Design Course Participants 100 Individual projects designed in Design Courses 54 Grant applications received for projects 54 Grant applications and projects approved for funding 39 Installed raingardens, shorelines, or native gardens Raingarden
2007-2017 LCW Program Figures 3,457 Introductory Workshop Participants 378 Installed Raingardens, Native Shorelines, or Native Gardens
2017 LCW Round 1 Projects
JOE BARTEN RESOURCE CONSERVATIONIST QUESTIONS?
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