Brown’s Creek Watershed District and Washington County worked together to retrofit McKusick Road during the 2017 road improvement project, providing water quality treatment to this 5,900 foot section of McKusick […]
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Project Location Brown’s Creek is a DNR designated trout stream currently impaired for turbidity and lack of cold water assemblage. The main stressors for Brown’s Creek are total suspended solids
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BCWD was awarded a 2017 Clean Water Fund Grant in the amount of $360,100 to partner with Wilson Golf Group/Oak Glen Golf Course to divert nutrient-rich, warm water from the
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Brown’s Creek Watershed District (District) was awarded a 2015 Clean Water Fund Grant in the amount of $204,350 to address thermal and sediment loading to Brown’s Creek. City of Stillwater
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Brown’s Creek Watershed District received a 2017 Clean Water Fund Accelerated Implementation grant in the amount of $51,525 to target the type and location of riparian restoration needed to shade
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How does the project help Brown’s Creek? By working with seven residential landowners in the neighborhood, BCWD installed 9 street-side raingardens to infiltrate 3.86 acre-feet of warm stormwater and to
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The Brown’s Creek Watershed District Board will hold a regular board meeting on Wednesday, April 12, 2023 at 6:30 p.m. in-person at Family Means at 1875 Northwestern Ave, Stillwater. The
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Project Locations BCWD has received a 2014 Clean Water Fund in the amount of $57,000 to improve the water quality to Long Lake, a recreational lake in Stillwater that has
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Project Cost Clean Water Grant = $32,250 BCWD received a 2015 Clean Water Fund Grant in the amount of $32,250 to partner with the City of Oak Park Heights to
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Brown’s Creek is one of the few remaining cold water fisheries in the Metropolitan Area; however, it is impaired due to high suspended solids and high temperatures. To understand the
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