MN Board of Water & Soil Resources Conservation Drainage ...What’s New for 2013? 6 . $700,000 - Drainage Water Management -funding for . both existing and new. tile drainage systems

MN Board of Water & Soil Resources Conservation Drainage

Management Program Grants FY 2013

Tiling and Conservation Drainage Workshop and Field Day

August 28-29, 2012 Hankinson, ND

Al Kean, Chief Engineer, BWSR 1

Drainage isn’t a Bad Word

Much of Minnesota’s land use activities depend on natural and artificial drainage

The key issue is how we manage drainage!

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Agriculture Roads Cities

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Roads (about 132,000 miles in Minnesota) Agriculture (about 50% of the soils in the Minnesota River Basin and Red River Basin are naturally poorly drained) Municipalities (stormwater management involves surface and subsurface drainage)

Why the Focus on Drainage Water Management?

Surge in Pattern Tile Drainage

BTSAC Briefing Paper #2

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The Red River Watershed Management Board (RRWMB) is considering uniform basin wide tile permitting, and possibly controls on new tile systems.

MN Clean Water Fund Conservation Drainage Grants

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FY 2010 $200,000

FY 2011 $400,000

FY 2012 $1,000,000

FY 2013 $1,700,000

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Outreach to: landowners, public drainage authorities, drainage engineers, contractors and others.

BWSR Conservation Drainage Grant Purposes

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Grants have been used to:

Retrofit Existing Drainage Systems for Water Quality

Evaluate Outcomes

Provide Outreach & Technical Assistance

What’s New for 2013?

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$700,000 - Drainage Water Management - funding for both existing and

new tile drainage systems

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The 2012 Legislature provided an additional $700,000 for FY 2013 to the Board of Water and Soil Resources in Chapter 264, Section 7 (d) for the Conservation Drainage Program, with a legislative intent to be used for drainage water management (DWM) in coordination with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service practice standards and federal funds. The appropriation language also removed a previous provision limiting use of Conservation Drainage Program funding to retrofits of existing drainage systems (i.e. funding can be used for both existing and new drainage systems).

FY 2013 Targeted Drainage

Water Management

Grants

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Competitive Conservation Drainage Management Program

• Focus is on agricultural drainage management • Eligible Local Government Units:

Soil and Water Conservation Districts, Watershed Districts, Counties, and Joint Powers thereof

• Approx. $1,000,000 available for FY 2013 • FY 2013 application period opened August 1

and ends September 14 8

State Program Payment Rates

• 75% cost-share for most eligible practices and planning

• 25% match from any non-state source • Certain operation incentive payments on

a per acre basis for the first 3 years, up to 300 acres

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Eligible Practices DWM – Controlled Subsurface Drainage

NRCS Conservation Activity Plan (CAP) 130 – Drainage Water Management by TechReg TSP NRCS Practice 587 Structure for Water Control NRCS Practice 554 Drainage Water Management, Implementation/Operation – CAP 130 is required. $7.58 per acre per year for the first three years of implementation and operation, up to 300 acres

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CAP 130 including controlled subsurface drainage, denitrifying bioreactor, and nutrient management components). Plan must be developed by a Technical Service Provider (TSP) certified in NRCS TechReg for CAP 130 Drainage Water

Eligible Practices Denitrifying Bioreactor

NRCS Interim Practice 747 Denitrifying Bioreactor • Wood chips are typically

used as a carbon source for bacteria and microbes that provide denitrification.

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Eligible Practices Nutrient Management

NRCS Conservation Activity Plan (CAP) 104 Nutrient Management Plan • On fields for which controlled subsurface drainage and/or a denitrifying bioreactor is planned. • Plan must be developed by a NRCS TechReg certified Technical Service Provider (TSP) for Practice 590 Nutrient Management.

NRCS Practice 590 Nutrient Management • On fields where controlled subsurface drainage, denitrifying bioreactor and/or existing open tile inlet(s) are replaced by dense pattern tile. • A CAP 104 is required. • Implementation incentive for the first three years at $5.44 per acre per year for CAP 104 acres without manure and $10.78 per acre per year for CAP 104 acres with manure, up to 300 acres.

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NRCS Conservation Activity Plan (CAP) 104 Nutrient Management Plan On fields for which controlled subsurface drainage and/or a denitrifying bioreactor is planned. Plan must be developed by a Technical Service Provider (TSP) certified in NRCS TechReg for Practice 590 Nutrient Management. NRCS Practice 590 Nutrient Management On fields where controlled subsurface drainage, denitrifying bioreactor and/or existing open tile inlet(s) are replaced by dense pattern tile. A CAP 104 is required.

Eligible Practices Replace Open Tile Inlets

Side Inlet Controls

Replacement of Existing Open Tile Inlet(s): with water quality improvement inlet(s)

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Side Inlet Controls: Along existing drainage ditches or streams to reduce erosion, provide temporary detention, and sediment settling

Multipurpose Drainage Water Management Planning

“Multipurpose Drainage” – Engineered drainage systems that provide both private drainage benefits and public water management benefits • Must be for a Chapter 103E public drainage system • Must involve a Chapter 103E drainage authority (County or Watershed District) • Identify on-field and on-farm practices, as well as on-drainage-system practices, many of which are eligible for various program funding • Planning , targeting and marketing

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Planning to develop subwatershed (drainage system) scale implementation plans for multipurpose drainage management on Chapter 103E drainage systems to protect and improve water quality, together with adequate agricultural drainage, equitable flood protection, peak flow and erosion reduction, and wildlife habitat improvement. The subwatershed plan(s) should consider practices such as grassed waterways, water and sediment control basins, culvert sizing (surface drainage coefficient of 1 inch per day or less), side inlets, controlled subsurface drainage, nutrient management, denitrifying bioreactors, constructed or restored wetlands, and other applicable hydrology management and water quality practices, on a subwatershed basis that reduce peak flows, nutrient transport and erosion potential. Targeting of BMPs to critical areas of the landscape and encouraging use of other federal, state or local BMP implementation funds. Marketing of multipurpose drainage management to landowners within the public drainage system subwatershed(s).

Multipurpose Drainage Water Management Goals

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• Provide adequate agricultural drainage for crop planting, productivity, and harvest

• Provide more equitable upstream to downstream drainage and protection

• Reduce peak flows and flood damages • Reduce erosion (field and channel) and sedimentation • Protect and improve water quality • Increase aquatic and/or terrestrial wildlife habitat

Ineligible Practices

• Tile, except for dense pattern tile to replace existing open tile inlet(s)

• Ditching • Culverts or bridges through roads • Ambient water quality monitoring

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Questions?

• Technical Questions – Al Kean

• 651-297-2907 • [email protected]

• Programmatic Questions – Clean Water Specialist – Board Conservationist

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MN Board of Water & Soil Resources Conservation Drainage ...What’s New for 2013? 6 . $700,000 - Drainage Water Management -funding for . both existing and new. tile drainage systems