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lands that will have public benefits of water quality or wildlife habitat. There are several <br />potential sources of funding and ACD works with landowners to help coordinate the <br />application process. Grants, funded mostly by partner agencies but administered by <br />ACD, typically provide 50-75% cost share on materials. Increased funding commitments <br />from WMOs will be sought to increase conservation practice installations. <br />Watershed Districts and WMOs have cost share funding available for water quality <br />improvement and demonstration pi ��."Lo. ACD pai with Rice Creek Watershed <br />District to administer RCWD's cost share program. Through this partnership, ACD <br />meets with landowners to discuss potential resource management strategies, assists <br />with the development of practice designs and cost estimates, coordinates cost share <br />requests with funding sources, and oversees project installation. RCWD provides the <br />bulk of the cost share funds and ACD and RCWD work together to promote and <br />prioritize project activities. ACD administers small project cost share grants for the <br />Sunrise River, Upper Rum River and Lower Rum River WMOs. Coon Creek Watershed <br />District directly engages in project installation and contracts with ACD to promote <br />projects with landowners and attend to all of the necessary administrative details up to <br />the construction process. CCWD pays for all of the .,u. u�tion costs and currently <br />does not have a cost share program for non -target projects. <br />ACD Conservation funding is currently not at the programmatic level but as funds from <br />the nation-wide sale of ACD's Rain Guardian increase, we will be able to direct a portion <br />of the county allotment to project installation cost share in partnership with landowners. <br />Aq. Preserves Program funds have historically been secured through a competitive <br />grant process at the county level and made available to landowners to help defray the <br />cost of water quality and habitat improvement projects. <br />State Cost Share Program funds are available for approved practices provided they are <br />designed by someone with technical approval authority for the particular practice. Many <br />approved practices require design by a licensed engineer. In recent years, ACD has <br />used state cost share funds to provide staff for technical assistance. <br />Clean Water Fund project cost share is available through the allocation to the <br />Metropolitan Landscape Restoration P� �y� a� made to the Anoka vation District. <br />Use of the funds is limited to projects that were identified as the result of a <br />subwatershed level stormwater retrofit assessment. ACD will administer these cost <br />share funds throughout the eleven county metro area. <br />Engineering Assistance — Funding is available through the Metro Conservation <br />Districts Non -Point Engineering Assistance P,�y,G,,, (NPEAP) to contract with <br />consulting engineers for the design of conservation practices, typically to be installed <br />with cost share funds. Applications must be made through ACD for projects in Anoka <br />County. <br />Local Water Planning — ACD applies for and manages local water planning funds <br />through BWSR's Natural Resources Block Grant. These funds are used to offset the <br />cost of assisting WMOs with the implementation of their water plans. Anoka County <br />receives approximately $11,000 to be shared among the water management entities. <br />Anoka Conservation District Comprehensive Plan October 2014 page 35 <br />