ENRTF ID: 085-B

Project Title: Our Future Drinking Water: Nitrate, Tile, and Climate

Category: B. Water Resources

Summary: We will evaluate how to reduce nitrate in rural drinking water and how tile drainage and climate change impact replenishment of drinking water, i.e., groundwater recharge.

Total Project Budget: $ 330,000
Proposed Project Time Period for the Funding Requested: June 30, 2023 (3 yrs)

Name: James Almendinger
Sponsoring Organization: Science Museum of Minnesota
Department: St. Croix Watershed Research Station
Address: 16910 152nd St N
Marine on St Croix MN 55047
Telephone Number: (651) 433-5953
Email jalmendinger@smm.org

Location: Southeast
County Name: Dakota

Alternate Text for Visual: Maps of land use and increased nitrate contamination in groundwater in Dakota County. Schematic of infiltrating water absorbing nitrates and traveling decades through the aquifer toward a river.