Over at Conservation Minnesota, we’ve been trying to track where the nearly $300 million in new money from the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment is going over the next two years. Although our work is not yet done, we have posted overall water spending numbers by agency here and detailed descriptions of money going to the Minnesota Department of Health (here and here), Department of Agriculture, Board of Water and Soil Resources and the Metro Council (for water supply planning). We also looked into the long-range water plan being developed by the University of Minnesota.

The money will fund badly-needed water cleanup, important habitat projects and critical parks and trails services. But making sure all the money is spent well and transparently is the job of citizen watchdogs and constituencies. We are interested in whether the material gathered to date raises any questions, concerns, or skepticism.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 at 3:32 pm by Dave Dempsey, Conservation Minnesota and is filed under Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment, Water. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.