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The Minnehaha Creek Watershed District is a watershed district in Minnesota with a mission to collaborate with public and private partners to protect and improve land and water for current and future generations. [1] The Minnehaha Creek in its name refers to the water link from Lake Minnetonka to the Mississippi River.
Watershed districts are special government entities in the U.S. state of Minnesota that monitor and regulate the use of water in watersheds surrounding various lakes and rivers in the state. The districts cover the natural regions of the watersheds, rather than politically defined regions and thus may have boundaries that cross jurisdictions.
Twenty-eight lakes in the watershed exceed 100 acres (0.40 km 2) in size. About 13 percent, or approximately 26 sq mi (67 km 2), of the watershed consists of wetlands. [2] The Rice Creek Watershed District was established in 1972 [2] to "conserve and restore the water resources of the District for the beneficial use of current and future ...
Minnehaha Creek (Dakota: Mniȟáȟa Wakpádaŋ) is a 22-mile-long (35 km) tributary of the Mississippi River that flows east from Gray's Bay Dam on Lake Minnetonka [2] through the suburban cities of Minnetonka, Hopkins, Saint Louis Park, and Edina, and the city of Minneapolis.
The 2001 Action Plan is a national strategy to reduce Gulf hypoxia with a focus on reducing the nitrogen and phosphorus nutrient loads to the northern Gulf coming from the Mississippi River. The Action Plan proposes three goals: a Coastal Goal, a Within Basin Goal, and a Quality of Life Goal. [12]
The first agency created to protect the state's resources was founded in 1931 by the Minnesota Legislature as the Minnesota Department of Conservation. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] When the Department of Conservation was created, it brought together four separate state entities: forestry, game and fish, drainage and waters, and lands and timber, while adding a ...
According to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, of the 806 square miles (2,090 km 2) of the river's watershed in Minnesota, 79% of the land is used for agricultural cultivation, primarily corn and soybeans. [4] Water quality has degraded, with only 3% of the river being fully supportive of aquatic life. Eutrophication is one major reason ...
The Straight River is a tributary of the Fish Hook River, 23 miles (37 km) long, in the north-central region of the U.S. state of Minnesota.Via the Fish Hook, Shell, and Crow Wing Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of approximately 60 square miles (160 km 2) in a rural region.