Middle River Snake River Water Shed Dist

Middle Snake Pamarac Rivers Water Shed District, doing business as Middle River Snake River Water Shed Dist, is a U.S. local government entity based in Warren, Minnesota that receives federal grant awards as a prime recipient and sub-recipient for water resource management and emergency disaster recovery work. The organization operates predominantly as a sub-recipient (70% of recent awards) flowing through the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, with a small prime footprint anchored to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service.

The vendor's federal footprint is heavily concentrated in disaster recovery. Federal Emergency Management Agency Public Assistance grants account for 7 of the 10 awards in the portfolio, with the Minnesota Department of Public Safety as the intermediary prime grantee. Those sub-awards, spanning 2023 through December 2024, address water control facilities and property acquisition and demolition related to disaster declaration DR-4659. In its prime-recipient role, the district has received a single named cooperative agreement from the Natural Resources Conservation Service for outlet structure repair in Marshall County, Minnesota, awarded November 21, 2022 and completed December 31, 2022 under the Emergency Watershed Protection Program (EWPP).

Activity is sparse and episodic. The source data spans awards from 2009 through December 2024, but meaningful recent activity clusters in 2023 and 2024 (five and two awards respectively), with combined dollars obligated across all awards totaling $621 thousand. The two funding agencies — FEMA and NRCS — account for 100% of the portfolio. The district does not hold federal contracts, GSA Schedules, or task-order seats on government-wide acquisition vehicles; all activity is grant-based. Sub-award work routes through Minnesota state government rather than federal prime contractors, which is consistent with FEMA's Hazard Mitigation Assistance and Public Assistance grant structures where states serve as intermediary grantees and pass funds to local jurisdictions for eligible work. The district's role is limited to performing water resource and emergency recovery work at the local level, not competing for federal contracts or operating as a sub-tier vendor on procurement vehicles.