Leveraging Grant Funds for Stormwater & Community Resilience Planning

Since 2022, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has provided funding opportunities for local government units and tribal nations to assess vulnerabilities and begin planning for the effects of Minnesota’s changing climate through a planning grant program targeting stormwater, wastewater community service systems. This seminar will highlight 3 projects from the 2022 grant cycle that focus on stormwater and community resilience. These projects showcase different project objectives, technical methods, and strategies for engaging local communities in flood vulnerability assessment, prioritization, and mitigation planning efforts, and key considerations that stormwater managers in Minnesota and elsewhere need to address as we face the dual problem of aging infrastructure and changing climate.

Featured Projects & Presenters

1. Pantown Neighborhood Watershed Stormwater Resilience & Flood Mitigation Plan, City of St. Cloud, MN with SEH Engineering
   1. Ian Weber, PE, Project Engineer, City of St. Cloud, MN
   2. Trent Imdieke, PE, Water Resources Engineer, Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc.
2. Resilience Hub Planning Using Flood Risk Assessment, City of Rochester, Freshwater Society, and EOR 
   1. Troy Erickson, PE, Water Resources Manager, City of Rochester, MN
   2. Camilla Correll, PE, Water Resources Engineer, EOR
3. City of Moorhead Climate Change Resiliency Planning, City of Moorhead with Houston Engineering
   1. Andrea Crabtree Nayes, Utilities Engineer, City of Moorhead, MN
   2. Mike Love, PE, Civil Engineer, Houston Engineering