 March 2024
 Funding for projects that help pollinators and waters.
The County offers three cost share programs for residents and businesses. These programs provide financial assistance for projects that improve water quality, provide pollinator habitat, or restore shoreline areas. If you would like to add more native plants to your garden or shoreline, these programs are a great way to get started.
If you toss your glass bottles and jars into the recycling, rest assured, your glass really is getting recycled.
When you make sure glass food and beverage containers make it into a recycling bin, you're not just discarding waste – you're contributing to a vital recycling process.
Through efficient collection systems and dedicated recycling facilities, your glass items are sorted, cleaned, and processed. The processed glass is then often used to manufacture new glass products right here in the Twin Cities Metro Area. This reduces the need for virgin materials and conserves natural resources. By participating in glass recycling, you help reduce environmental strain and landfill waste, and support local economies and create jobs.
Your actions make a difference.
Each year Carver County Water Management Organization assembles an annual report showing all the projects and programs completed or worked on during the year.
Our team had an active year in 2023.
- Worked on 31 projects to restore or protect waters.
- Sampled 21 lakes and 20 stream sites.
- Reviewed 74 water permit applications.
- Delivered 38 education programs and activities.
- Managed 12 active grants.
Visit the annual report summary to learn more about activities and projects in 2023.
Carver County residents can receive $20 off a rain barrel or compost bin by using the code CARVER20 while supplies last.
Items can be pre-ordered at Recycling Association of Minnesota. Select Carver County as your pickup location. Discount valid for Carver County residents only.
Each spring, the Recycling Association of Minnesota partners with local governments, soil and water conservation districts, watershed districts, nonprofits, and other organizations to provide quality rain barrels and compost bins made from 100 % recycled materials at low cost to Minnesota residents. Program support provided by Carver County Environmental Services and Carver County Water Management Organization. Call 952-361-1835 with questions or message RecycleCarver on Facebook.
Plate to Garden Compost is a win-win for community organizations and the environment
In 2015, the Minnesota Composting Council developed the Plate to Garden program to complete the loop of growing food, eating food, and turning food scraps back into soil to grow food again.
The program is a fundraising event designed to give schools and organizations participating in a source separated organics collection program (food scraps, food-soiled paper and compostable plastics) an opportunity to close the loop by holding a fundraiser to sell the finished compost and educate citizens about the benefits of composting.
Interested in hosting a Plate to Garden event in 2024? If so, let us know soon. Dates are filling up fast. Fill out the request form or email zmccarty@co.carver.mn.us with questions.
Carver County currently offers four financial assistance programs to help homeowners with the cost of replacing or repairing failing septic systems.
Low-income grant program
- Available to most low-income landowners with a failing septic system as documented by an Minnesota Pollution Control Agency existing system compliance inspection.
Clean water grant program
- Available to property owners with a septic system identified as one of the following: curtain drain system, SB2 system, site located in shoreland prior to 1996, system with hydraulic failure, and/or system with failing or deteriorating tanks.
Direct discharge cost share program
- Available to property owners who have a direct discharge septic system and volunteer to upgrade their septic system.
Low-interest loan program
- Available to property owners with current property taxes and a septic system that is failing, located in a sensitive area, or otherwise meeting at least one of the priority criteria listed on the application.
Contact Jacob McLain at jmclain@co.carver.mn.us or 952-361-1801 for more information.
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