Case studies

New case studies

• Case studies for infiltration
• Case studies for green roofs
• Case studies for tree trenches and tree boxes
• Permeable pavement stories
• Case Studies

Clean Water Legacy funded projects

• The South St. Louis County Soil and Water Conservation District received an Accelerated Implementation Grant to develop a strategy for mitigating the impacts of thermally enriched stormwater runoff from the Miller Hill Mall in Duluth. The stormwater management plan was completed in March, 2016 and includes recommendations such as rain gardens, tree trenches, permeable pavers and tree planting. For more information, go to the South St. Louis County Soil and Water Conservation District web site.

2013

• Aitkin County Soil and Water Conservation District mini-grant program for rain gardens and native vegetation buffers
• Brown's Creek rain garden and biofiltration
• Brown's Creek raingarden retrofits
• Cass County stormwater system retrofits
• Chisago SWCD stormwater infiltration retrofits in the City of Lindstrom
• City of Apple Valley iron-enhanced sand filter
• City of Eden Prairie iron-enhanced sand filters
• City of Plymouth porous pavement and reinforced turf
• City of Roseville stormwater reuse system
• Cook County raingardens
• Crow Wing County and Crow Wing SWCD raingardens, shoreline stabilization, and bioretention
• Dakota County Community Partners Grants for raingardens, bioinfiltration, and bioswales
• Dakota County SWCD clean water retrofit partnership
• Faribault SWCD stormwater mini-grant program
• Fillmore SWCD Community Partners Grants for urban stormwater BMPs
• Hubbard SWCD Community Partners Grants for raingardens and native vegetative buffers
• Middle St. Croix WMO Quixote Avenue stormwater retrofits
• Master Water Stewards
• Pine SWCD Community Partners Grants for shoreline buffers and rain gardens
• Pomme de Terre River Association rain gardens, buffers, and wetland restorations
• Ramsey Conservation District Community Partners grants on exceptionally visible green infrastructure retrofits
• Ramsey-Washington Metro WD Community Partners Grant to engage faith organizations in projects to retrofit their properties with green infrastructure practices
• Red Lake SWCD vegetated swale and raingarden
• Rice County Environmental Services Community Partners Grants for practices including rain gardens, vegetative buffers, and wetland restorations
• Riley-Purgatory-Bluff Creek WD Community Partners Grants for infiltration practices
• Sauk River WD infiltration and bioretention retrofits
• Scott WMO biofiltration retrofits
• Sherburne SWCD raingarden retrofits in St. Cloud
• South Washington WD water re-use systems
• Valley Branch WD infiltration
• Washington CD turfgrass conversion to native plantings

2012

• Maplewood Mall Retrofit
• Green Line Green Infrastructure Practices
• Installing an Iron-enhanced Sand Filter
• Improving the Water Quality of Green Lake
• Oneka Ridge Golf Course Stormwater Reuse and Irrigation
• Colby Lake Stormwater Reuse Project

Case Studies from the 2008 version of the Manual.

• Burnsville rain gardens - retrofitting for water quality
• Heritage Park - an urban retrofit
• University of Minnesota Arboretum - runoff model and rain gardens
• Silver Creek Cliff Trail - meeting stormwater discharge requirements using compost
• Minneapolis Chain of Lakes - a stormwater treatment train approach to improving lake water quality
• Brown's Creek trout habitat preservation project - thermal protection of a trout stream resource and infiltration within land-locked basins
• Bemidji stormwater management - retrofitting leads to proactive planning
• Spicer State Highway 23 - stormwater management for linear projects
• City of Wykoff - stormwater remediation in a karst area
• Lake Phalen shoreland restoration - shore restoration of a high-use urban lake
• Tanners Lake - alum injection for phosphorus removal