JOE BARTEN DAKOTA COUNTY SWCD LANDSCAPING FOR CLEAN WATER (LCW) - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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

10 Introduction Presentations

Dakota County Library Burnsville Eagan Held throughout Dakota County to discuss water ISSUES, loss of pollinator habitat and native plants, and SOLUTIONS to those problems

Native Plant Community Plants suited to a certain area with compatible soils, topography, fire, climate, and water needs or tolerances

Pre-Settlement Native Plant Communities

Big Woods Oak Openings & Barrens Prairie Wet Meadow

Present Day Plant Communities

Remaining Native Plant Communities Source: MnDNR Landscape changed for human needs: Drained, paved, graded, or plowed 94% 6%

How can we connect the dots?

Kentucky Bluegrass (lawn grass)

Roots of Native Prairie Plants

Conservation Research Institute and Heidi Natura

Lawn Grass 15’+ Depth

Environmental Impacts of Urban Development More Impervious = More Runoff

Increased runoff with sediment, nutrients, and pollutants disrupts natural processes

Valley Lake, Lakeville

Concept - Gregg Thompson, Illustration - Taina Litwak, Animation - Ron Struss

Just like a regular planting, but able to absorb rainwater and breakdown pollutants

Install a Raingarden!

Drifted-in Logs & Snags

(wildlife habitat, erosion control & water quality)

Emergent Vegetation

(water quality, erosion- control & wildlife habitat)

Tree Stumps

(wildlife habitat & water quality)

Shoreline Vegetation

(erosion-control, water quality, wildlife habitat, high plant diversity = high wildlife diversity)

Value / Function of Native Shorelines

What is Landscaping for Clean Water?

10 Design Workshops

Collaboratively design projects tailored to landowner’s property and goals.

Design Workshops

Apple Valley Burnsville Thompson County Park – West St. Paul

Example Planting Plans

What is Landscaping for Clean Water?

What to Submit

• 1. Grant Application
• 2. Cost Estimate
• 3. Planting Plan
• 4. Map 1 with Project Location

1 2 3 4

What is Landscaping for Clean Water?

• 1. Project Layout
• 2. Midpoint Check
• 3. Final Project Check

Project Installation Oversight

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

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