Minnesota Water Conservation Strategic Plan
Explore the Minnesota Water Conservation Strategic Plan focusing on stakeholder feedback, major goals, values, smart strategies, portfolio mix, and key indicators for FY22. Learn about efforts to ensure safe drinking water, clean groundwater, swimmable surface waters, and water conservation practices. Delve into the plan's objectives, targets, and initiatives to sustain and protect Minnesota's water resources.
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Strategic Plan Paul Gardner, Administrator August 17, 2020
Stakeholder Feedback 2019 Stakeholder Feedback 2019 More transparency and communication desired Clean Water Fund (CWF) outputs and outcomes Clean Water Council decision making for Fund recommendations Not clear how CWF programs fit together Legacy Amendment expires in 2034 Coming faster than it looks What will be complete?
Four Major Goals Four Major Goals Goal 1: Drinking water is safe for everyone, everywhere in Minnesota Goal 2: Groundwater is clean and available to all in Minnesota Goal 3: Surface waters are swimmable and fishable throughout the state Goal 4: All Minnesotans value water and take actions to sustain and protect it
Values and Being SMART Values and Being SMART Effectively leverage other funding sources Prioritize funding for projects in approved watershed plans Prioritize projects w/ high potential for de-listing No net increases in impairments SMART : (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Time- bound).
Major Strategies with Rates and Dates Major Strategies with Rates and Dates Protect & Restore 200,000 acres in Upper Miss. River Basin by 2034 Protect 400,000 acres in wellhead protection areas by 2034 Fund half of drinking water plan projects by 2034 Maintain compliance for SSTS at 80%, stretch goal of 90% Reach goal of 5 million acres of cover crops by 2034 Certify 6.5 million acres in MN Ag Water Quality Certification Program 30+ additional strategies
Portfolio Mix Portfolio Mix Monitoring & Assessment capped at 15% Increase % going to projects as plans are complete Spend 5% primarily on drinking water (in Constitution) Spend 20% indirectly for drinking water
Key Indicators for FY22 Key Indicators for FY22- -23 Recommendations 23 Recommendations Drinking Water (DW) Spending: 18% direct 7% indirect Monitoring & Assessment: 14% State FTEs: 278.38 State FTEs in Greater MN: 143.48 (52% of total) Pass-Through: $146.6 million (63% of total) Fewer items: Number of proposals shrinking
Some Holes in the Plan & Challenges Some Holes in the Plan & Challenges Council wants 5% to go to innovation. What is innovation ? Evaluation: Need to articulate how it s done Equity: Reaching outside traditional agency channels Non-operating landowners: Half of cropland is rented
