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Vermillion River to Get Some Help

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I am on the email list for Region 5 of the EPA....

I figure some of you may be interested in this one...

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-----Original Message-----

From: Karen Reshkin [mailto:[email protected]]

Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 2:44 PM

To: Kimble; Kimble, John D

Subject: [r5news] Vermillion River watershed receives EPA grant

CONTACT: Phillippa Cannon, (312) 353-6218

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

No. 05-OPA242

Vermillion River watershed receives EPA grant

Farmington, Minn. (November 15, 2005) -- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has chosen the Vermillion River watershed in Minnesota to receive a $675,000 Targeted Watershed Grant. It is among 12 watersheds nationwide eligible to receive part of $9 million for innovative water quality protection projects.

The grant will be given to the Vermillion River Watershed Joint Powers Organization to protect a high-quality trout stream in an urbanizing area through the development of a trading program. The EPA grant with $250,000 in matching local funds will be used to preserve the cold water inflows that make the river a perfect trout habitat. It will allow landowners to buy or trade infiltration and buffering functions. The 372-square-mile watershed is the largest in the Twin Cities region.

"The goal of EPA's Targeted Watersheds Grant Program is to build on the successes of innovative local initiatives such as the Vermillion River project," said EPA Regional Administrator Tom Skinner. "This is what can be accomplished when people from all walks of life sit at the same table and work collaboratively. This kind of community effort improves water quality, and it improves the quality of life."

"Of course, we're honored that EPA chose our application as one of their 2005 winners," said Dakota County Board Commissioner Joseph A. Harris. "We will now be able to put our work plan into action much more quickly than we had originally thought we could. The end result will be preserving and restoring the Vermillion River to a healthy, sustainable water body using sound scientific and economic criteria to manage land uses within the watershed."

Sheryl Corrigan, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Commissioner, said, "This generous grant will enable the Vermillion River Watershed Joint Powers Association to make significant progress in protecting water quality in this unique and important watershed in our metropolitan area. It will build on the progress made with the help of an earlier EPA grant for $57,800 awarded in 2000. Together these grants are helping the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency achieve its goal of reducing nonpoint-source pollution of the state's rivers and improving the water quality essential to Minnesota's future growth."

The three-year-old Targeted Watersheds Grant Program fosters community-based initiatives to help protect, preserve and restore local or regional watersheds. More information about this year's selections and the grants program is at www.epa.gov/owow/watershed/initiative.

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DEADhead, I can check into that some more, but from what I've been told by some folks involved with that project, the developer is going to have to make some concessions to the river. Not a bad start anyway. Hopefully that works out alright.

Inevitably, it's an uphill battle with the Vermillion considering it'll soon be consumed by urban sprawl...

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I was trying to go back and find the DNR article I read at work about the development. couldn't find it, but from what I got out of the story, the developer and city of farmington weren't going to do anything about the runoff until comments back from the DNR said they needed to do something to cool the runoff back down before it goes back into the river.

It frustrates me because who needs ANOTHER strip mall in the south metro. No one can go over to Lakeville or Apple Valley or Burnsville or Prior Lake/Savage to get what they need?

A lot of people don't seem to care about a resource many anglers prize....

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