Grants | Beltrami SWCD

Current Grants and Funding

BWSR - Clean Water Stories

Our projects are funded through a variety of grants and funding sources.

2024 Project Outcomes Presenation

Legislative Coordinating Commission

Clean Water Fund Grants

Watershed Based Implementation

Soil Health Delivery

Funds are used for water management activities such as monitoring, watershed characterization and scientific study, planning, and on-the-ground restoration and protection activities.

Conservation Delivery Grants

Conservation Delivery

Funds are used for administrative and operational costs include paying for the costs of employing staff, office space, transportation, postage and utilities, and supervisors’ compensation and expenses.

State Cost Share Grants

State Cost Share

Funds are used to share the cost with the landowner of systems or practices for erosion control, sedimentation control, or water quality improvements that are designed to protect and improve soil and water resources.

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Natural Resource Block Grant

Natural Resource Grants

Funds are used to implement programs to protect and improve water resources, such as failing septic systems, wetland conservation and shoreland restoration across the county.

Local Capacity

Funds targets four resource concern areas such as Soil Erosion, Riparian Zone Management, Water Storage and Treatment, and Excess Nutrients—and supports increased capacity by funding expenses in the following categories: Staffing, Cost Share/Incentives, Technology/Capital Equipment, and Operations

Other State Grants

Buffer Law

Soil Health Staffing

Buffer Law Implementation - funding and assistance for buffer law implementation.

Soil Health Supplemental Staffing - to create additional local points of contact to work with landowners on increasing utilization of soil health practices and systems that advance the principles of soil health.

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