2004 Report on the Water Quality of Minnesota Streams
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State of Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
STATE OF MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Section 105.391, Subd. 1, the Commissioner of Natural Resources hereby publishes the final inventory of Protected (i.e. Public) Waters and Wetlands for Nobles County. This list is to be used in conjunction with the Protected Waters and Wetlands Map prepared for Nobles County. Copies of the final map and list are available for inspection at the following state and county offices: DNR Regional Office, New Ulm DNR Area Office, Marshall Nobles SWCD Nobles County Auditor Dated: STATE OF MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES JOSEPH N. ALEXANDER, Commissioner DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES DIVISION OF WATERS FINAL DESIGNATION OF PROTECTED WATERS AND WETLANDS WITHIN NOBLES COUNTY, MINNESOTA. A. Listed below are the townships of Nobles County and the township/range numbers in which they occur. Township Name Township # Range # Bigelow 101 40 Bloom 104 41 Dewald 102 41 Elk 103 40 Graham Lakes 104 39 Grand Prairie 101 43 Hersey 103 39 Indian Lake 101 39 Larkin 103 42 Leota 104 43 Lismore 103 43 Little Rock 101 42 Lorain 102 39 Olney 102 42 Ransom 101 41 Seward 104 40 Summit Lake 103 41 Westside 102 43 Wilmont 104 42 Worthington 102 40 B. PROTECTED WATERS 1. The following are protected waters: Number and Name Section Township Range 53-7 : Indian Lake 27,34 101 39 53-9 : Maroney(Woolsten- 32 102 39 croft) Slough 53-16 : Kinbrae Lake (Clear) 11 104 39 Page 1 Number and Name Section Township Range 53-18 : Kinbrae Slough 11,14 104 39 53-19 : Jack Lake 14,15 104 39 53-20 : East Graham Lake 14,22,23,26,27 104 39 53-21 : West Graham Lake 15,16,21,22 104 39 53-22 : Fury Marsh 22 104 39 53-24 : Ocheda Lake various 101;102 39;40 53-26 : Peterson Slough 21,22 101 40 53-27 : Wachter Marsh 23 101 40 53-28 : Okabena Lake 22,23,26,27,28 102 40 53-31 : Sieverding Marsh 2 104 40 53-32 : Bigelow Slough NE 36 101 41 53-33 : Boote-Herlein Marsh 6,7;1,12 102 40;41 53-37 : Groth Marsh NW 2 103 41 53-45 : Bella Lake 26,27,34 101 40 *32-84 : Iowa Lake 31;36 101 38;39 *51-48 : Willow Lake 5;33 104;105 41 2. -
Physical Characteristics of Stream Subbasins in The
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF STREAM SUBBASINS IN THE SANOCKI PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF STREAM RIVER,SUBBASINS THE UPPER IN CEDAR RIVER, UPPER WAPSIPINICON ROCK SHELL ANDRIVER, UPPER WAPSIPINICON RIVER, UPPER CEDAR RIVER, SHELL ROCK OFR 99-471 RIVER, AND WINNEBAGO RIVER BASINS, SOUTHERN MINNESOTA AND NORTHERN IOWA MINNESOTA SOUTHEASTERN BASINS, RIVER, WINNEBAGO By Christopher A. Sanocki Open-File Report 99-471 Prepared in cooperation with the Minnesota Department of Transportation 99-471 OFR Mounds View, Minnesota 2000 U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey 3K\VLFDO &KDUDFWHULVWLFV RI 6WUHDP 6XEEDVLQV LQ WKH 8SSHU :DSVLSLQLFRQ 5LYHU 8SSHU &HGDU 5LYHU 6KHOO 5RFN 5LYHU DQG :LQQHEDJR 5LYHU %DVLQV 6RXWKHUQ 0LQQHVRWD DQG 1RUWKHUQ ,RZD %\ &KULVWRSKHU $ 6DQRFNL $EVWUDFW Data that describe the physical characteristics of stream subbasins upstream from selected sites on streams in the Upper Wapsipinicon River, Upper Cedar River, Shell Rock River, and Winnebago River Basins, located in southern Minnesota and northern Iowa are presented in this report. The physical characteristics are the drainage area of the subbasin, the percentage area of the subbasin covered only by lakes, the percentage area of the subbasin covered by both lakes and marsh, the main-channel length, and the main-channel slope. Stream sites include outlets of subbasins of at least 5 square miles, and locations of U.S. Geological Survey high-flow, and continuous-record gaging stations. ,QWURGXFWLRQ Selected data for sites on streams at outlets of subbasins larger than about 5 square miles; at This is the 16th report in a series detailing locations of U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) high- subbasin characteristics of streams in Minnesota flow, and continuous-record gaging stations and adjacent states. -
Chapter 7050 Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Water Quality Division Waters of the State
MINNESOTA RULES 1989 6711 WATERS OF THE STATE 7050.0130 CHAPTER 7050 MINNESOTA POLLUTION CONTROL AGENCY WATER QUALITY DIVISION WATERS OF THE STATE STANDARDS FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE 7050.0214 REQUIREMENTS FOR POINT QUALITY AND PURITY OF THE WATERS OF SOURCE DISCHARGERS TO THE STATE LIMITED RESOURCE VALUE 7050.0110 SCOPE. WATERS. 7050.0130 DEFINITIONS. 7050.0215 REQUIREMENTS FOR ANIMAL 7050.0140 USES OF WATERS OF THE STATE. FEEDLOTS. 7050.0150 DETERMINATION OF 7050.0220 SPECIFIC STANDARDS OF COMPLIANCE. QUALITY AND PURITY FOR 7050.0170 NATURAL WATER QUALITY. DESIGNATED CLASSES OF 7050.0180 NONDEGRADATION FOR WATERS OF THE STATE. OUTSTANDING RESOURCE CLASSIFICATIONS OF WATERS OF THE VALUE WATERS. STATE 7050.0185 NONDEGRADATION FOR ALL 7050.0400 PURPOSE. WATERS. 7050.0410 LISTED WATERS. 7050.0190 VARIANCE FROM STANDARDS. 7050.0420 TROUT WATERS. 7050.0200 WATER USE CLASSIFICATIONS 7050.0430 UNLISTED WATERS. FOR WATERS OF THE STATE. 7050.0440 OTHER CLASSIFICATIONS 7050.0210 GENERAL STANDARDS FOR SUPERSEDED. DISCHARGERS TO WATERS OF 7050.0450 MULTI-CLASSIFICATIONS. THE STATE. 7050.0460 WATERS SPECIFICALLY 7050.0211 FACILITY STANDARDS. CLASSIFIED. 7050.0212 REQUIREMENTS FOR POINT 7050.0465 MAP: MAJOR SURFACE WATER SOURCE DISCHARGERS OF DRAINAGE BASINS. INDUSTRIAL OR OTHER WASTES. 7050.0470 CLASSIFICATIONS FOR WATERS 7050.0213 ADVANCED WASTEWATER IN MAJOR SURFACE WATER TREATMENT REQUIREMENTS. DRAINAGE BASINS. 7050.0100 [Repealed, 9 SR 913] STANDARDS FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE QUALITY AND PURITY OF THE WATERS OF THE STATE 7050.0110 SCOPE. Parts 7050.0130 to 7050.0220 apply to all waters of the state, both surface and underground, and include general provisions applicable to the maintenance of water quality and aquatic habitats; definitions of water use classes; standards for dischargers of sewage, industrial, and other wastes; and standards of quality and purity for specific water use classes. -
Statistical Summaries of Selected Iowa Streamflow Data--Table 1
Table 1 1 Table 1. Streamgages in Iowa included in this study. [no., number] Map Streamgage number Streamgage name Link to streamflow statistics for streamgage number (fig. 1) 1 05387440 Upper Iowa River at Bluffton, Iowa http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2015/1214/downloads/05387440_stats.docx 2 05387500 Upper Iowa River at Decorah, Iowa http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2015/1214/downloads/05387500_stats.docx 3 05388000 Upper Iowa River near Decorah, Iowa http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2015/1214/downloads/05388000_stats.docx 4 05388250 Upper Iowa River near Dorchester, Iowa http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2015/1214/downloads/05388250_stats.docx 5 05388500 Paint Creek at Waterville, Iowa http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2015/1214/downloads/05388500_stats.docx 6 05389000 Yellow River near Ion, Iowa http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2015/1214/downloads/05389000_stats.docx 7 05389400 Bloody Run Creek near Marquette, Iowa http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2015/1214/downloads/05389400_stats.docx 8 05389500 Mississippi River at McGregor, Iowa http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2015/1214/downloads/05389500_stats.docx 9 05411400 Sny Magill Creek near Clayton, Iowa http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2015/1214/downloads/05411400_stats.docx 10 05411600 Turkey River at Spillville, Iowa http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2015/1214/downloads/05411600_stats.docx 11 05411850 Turkey River near Eldorado, Iowa http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2015/1214/downloads/05411850_stats.docx 12 05412000 Turkey River at Elkader, Iowa http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2015/1214/downloads/05412000_stats.docx 13 05412020 Turkey River above French Hollow Creek at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2015/1214/downloads/05412020_stats.docx -
Delineation Percentage
Lake Superior - North Rainy River - Headwaters Lake Superior - South Vermilion River Nemadji River Cloquet River Pine River Rainy River - Rainy Lake Little Fork River Mississippi River - Headwaters Leech Lake River Upper St. Croix River Root River Big Fork River Mississippi River - Winona Upper/Lower Red Lake Kettle River Mississippi River - Lake Pepin Mississippi River - Grand Rapids Mississippi River - La Crescent Crow Wing River Otter Tail River Mississippi River - Reno Mississippi River - Brainerd Zumbro River Redeye River Upper Big Sioux River Mississippi River - Twin Cities Snake River Des Moines River - Headwaters St. Louis River Rum River Lower Big Sioux River Lower St. Croix River Cottonwood River Minnesota River - Headwaters Cannon River Mississippi River - St. Cloud Long Prairie River Lake of the Woods Lower Rainy North Fork Crow River Mississippi River - Sartell Lac Qui Parle River Buffalo River Wild Rice River Minnesota River - Mankato Sauk River Rock River Redwood River Snake River Chippewa River Watonwan River Clearwater River East Fork Des Moines River Red River of the North - Sandhill River Upper Red River of the North Blue Earth River Red River of the North - Marsh River Roseau River Minnesota River - Yellow Medicine River Le Sueur River Little Sioux River Bois de Sioux River Cedar River Lower Minnesota River Pomme de Terre River Red Lake River Lower Des Moines River Upper Iowa River Red River of the North - Tamarac River Shell Rock River Two Rivers Rapid River Red River of the North - Grand Marais Creek Mustinka River South Fork Crow River Thief River Winnebago River Upper Wapsipinicon River 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% %Altered %Natural %Impounded %No Definable Channel wq-bsm1-06. -
West Fork Des Moines River and Heron Lake TMDL Implementation Plan
West Fork Des Moines River and Heron Lake TMDL Implementation Plan September 2009 Submitted by: Heron Lake Watershed District In cooperation with the TMDL Advisory and Technical Committees Preface This implementation plan was written by the Heron Lake Watershed District (HLWD), with the assistance of the Advisory Committee, and Technical Committee, and guidance from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) based on the report West Fork Des Moines River Watershed Total Maximum Daily Load Final Report: Excess Nutrients (North and South Heron Lake), Turbidity, and Fecal Coliform Bacteria Impairments. Advisory Committee and Technical Committee members that helped develop this plan are: Advisory Committee Karen Johansen City of Currie Jeff Like Taylor Co-op Clark Lingbeek Pheasants Forever Don Louwagie Minnesota Soybean Growers Rich Perrine Martin County SWCD Randy Schmitz City of Brewster Michael Hanson Cottonwood County Tom Kresko Minnesota Department of Natural Resources - Windom Technical Committee Kelli Daberkow Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Jan Voit Heron Lake Watershed District Ross Behrends Heron Lake Watershed District Melanie Raine Heron Lake Watershed District Wayne Smith Nobles County Gordon Olson Jackson County Chris Hansen Murray County Pam Flitter Martin County Roger Schroeder Lyon County Kyle Krier Pipestone County and Soil and Water Conservation District Ed Lenz Nobles Soil and Water Conservation District Brian Nyborg Jackson Soil and Water Conservation District Howard Konkol Murray Soil and Water Conservation District Kay Clark Cottonwood Soil and Water Conservation District Rose Anderson Lyon Soil and Water Conservation District Kathy Smith Martin Soil and Water Conservation District Steve Beckel City of Jackson Mike Haugen City of Windom Jason Rossow City of Lakefield Kevin Nelson City of Okabena Dwayne Haffield City of Worthington Bob Krebs Swift Brands, Inc. -
Water Quality Trends at Minnesota Milestone Sites
Water Quality Trends for Minnesota Rivers and Streams at Milestone Sites Five of seven pollutants better, two getting worse June 2014 Author The MPCA is reducing printing and mailing costs by using the Internet to distribute reports and David Christopherson information to wider audience. Visit our website for more information. MPCA reports are printed on 100% post- consumer recycled content paper manufactured without chlorine or chlorine derivatives. Minnesota Pollution Control Agency 520 Lafayette Road North | Saint Paul, MN 55155-4194 | www.pca.state.mn.us | 651-296-6300 Toll free 800-657-3864 | TTY 651-282-5332 This report is available in alternative formats upon request, and online at www.pca.state.mn.us . Document number: wq-s1-71 1 Summary Long-term trend analysis of seven different water pollutants measured at 80 locations across Minnesota for more than 30 years shows consistent reductions in five pollutants, but consistent increases in two pollutants. Concentrations of total suspended solids, phosphorus, ammonia, biochemical oxygen demand, and bacteria have significantly decreased, but nitrate and chloride concentrations have risen, according to data from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s (MPCA) “Milestone” monitoring network. Recent, shorter-term trends are consistent with this pattern, but are less pronounced. Pollutant concentrations show distinct regional differences, with a general pattern across the state of lower levels in the northeast to higher levels in the southwest. These trends reflect both the successes of cleaning up municipal and industrial pollutant discharges during this period, and the continuing challenge of controlling the more diffuse “nonpoint” polluted runoff sources and the impacts of increased water volumes from artificial drainage practices. -
Des Moines… Model Report
Des Moines Headwaters, Lower Des Moines, and East Fork Des Moines River Basins Watershed Model Development) Prepared for Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Prepared by One Park Drive, Suite 200 • PO Box 14409 Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 June 27, 2016 wq-ws4-52c (This page left intentionally blank.) Des Moines River Watershed Model Report June 28, 2016 Table of Contents 1 Introduction ...................................................................................................................1 2 Watershed Model Development ...................................................................................5 2.1 Upland Representation ......................................................................................................................5 Geology, Soils, and Slopes ........................................................................................................5 Land Use and Land Cover .........................................................................................................9 Development of HRUs ............................................................................................................. 12 2.2 Meteorology .................................................................................................................................... 15 Data Processing ....................................................................................................................... 15 Auxiliary Weather Series ........................................................................................................ -
Upper Wapsipinicon River Watershed WRAPS Report (Wq-Ws4-67A)
Watershed February 2020 Upper Wapsipinicon River Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy Report Authors and Contributors Emily Zanon, MPCA Ashley Ignatius, MPCA Bill Thompson, MPCA Justin Watkins, MPCA Joe Magee, MPCA Jason Carlson, DNR Jennifer Ronnenberg, MDH Angie Knish, Mower Co. James Fett, Mower Co. SWCD Justin Hanson, Mower Co. SWCD Antonio Arenas Amado, Iowa Flood Center/IIHR Cover photo credit: Joe Magee The MPCA is reducing printing and mailing costs by using the Internet to distribute reports and information to wider audience. Visit our website for more information. The MPCA reports are printed on 100% post-consumer recycled content paper manufactured without chlorine or chlorine derivatives. Document number: wq-ws4-67a Contents Contents ................................................................................................................................................. 3 List of tables............................................................................................................................................ 3 List of figures .......................................................................................................................................... 4 Key terms and abbreviations .................................................................................................................. 5 Executive summary ................................................................................................................................. 6 What is the WRAPS Report? ............................................................................................................................ -
Iowa Chapter Report March 27, 2018 Greg Gelwicks Iowa DNR Fisheries Research
Iowa Chapter Report March 27, 2018 Greg Gelwicks Iowa DNR Fisheries Research Dam Mitigation and Rivers Program Contact: Nate Hoogeveen, (515) 281-3134, [email protected] Links: http://www.iowadnr.gov/Things-to-Do/Canoeing-Kayaking/Dam-Mitigation-Projects Willow Creek The third of three dams on Willow at East Park in Mason City was improved for fish passage in January 2018. The third dam was a removal. Two other dams near where this tributary's mouth at the Winnebago River were modified in January of 2017. One was removed and replaced with a low-cross vane structure. The other was converted to a rock arch rapids. Quaker Mill Dam, Maquoketa River The Quaker Mill Dam north of Manchester on the Maquoketa River was removed in the fall of 2017 as a phase 1 project. A starter channel was meandered through the former lakebed and seeded down for one year of growth prior to reconnecting it to flowing water. 2018 Dam Mitigation Projects * Phase 2 of the Quaker Mill Dam project * Ames River Valley Park Dam conversion to whitewater facility/fish passage channel * A mitigation bank is being reviewed for USACE approval based on the removal of two dams in Fort Dodge on the Des Moines River, which may be either the first stream mitigation bank in Iowa. Setting up mitigation banks in Iowa is now possible due to work Iowa DNR led to develop a method of evaluating credits to measure adverse and beneficial effects of different project type to allow credit trading. This would open fish passage to the entire East Fork Des Moines River, and the West Fork Des Moines River upstream to the Reasoner Dam in Humboldt. -
POLLUTION CONTROL AGENCY Water Quality Division
MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY Minnesota State Archives POLLUTION CONTROL AGENCY Water Quality Division An Inventory of Its Water Quality Reports OVERVIEW OF THE RECORDS Agency: Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. Division of Water Quality. Series Title: Water quality reports, Dates: 1927-1983. Abstract: Reports of stream pollution investigations, sewage field investigations, and studies of the quality of river water. Quantity: 7.5 cu. ft. (8 boxes) Location: See Volume/Folder List for box locations. SCOPE AND CONTENTS OF THE RECORDS Typed, near-print, and printed reports of stream pollution investigations, sewage field investigations, and studies of the quality of river water, prepared by the Environmental Sanitation Division and the Water Pollution Control Section of the Minnesota Department of Health until about mid-1967, and thereafter by the Water Quality Division of the Pollution Control Agency. Many of the reports contain photographs documenting the studies. Also included are a report on sewage problems in Albany Village (1956) and at the American Crystal Sugar Company refinery in Moorhead, Minnesota (1951). ORGANIZATION OF THE RECORDS These records are organized into the following sections: Stream Pollution Investigation Reports, 1927-1948. Volumes A-C. Stream Pollution Memoranda, 1930-1960. Volume D. Sewage Field Investigation Reports, 1945-1979. Volumes 1-37, plus some unbound reports. River Survey Investigations, 1929-1949, 1979-1983. Volumes 39-48. pca004.inv POLLUTION CONTROL AGENCY. Water Quality Division. Water Quality Reports, p. 2 ARRANGEMENT OF THE RECORDS The reports are contained in lettered or numbered binders and are numbered within each binder. They follow a general chronological progression within each of the sections listed above. -
Minnesota Rules 2009
MINNESOTA RULES 2009 1270 CHAPTER 7050 MINNESOTA POLLUTION CONTROL AGENCY WATERS OF THE STATE WATER QUALITY STANDARDS FOR 7050.0224 SPECIFIC WATER QUALITY STANDARDS FOR PROTECTION OF WATERS OF THE STATE CLASS4WATERSOFTHESTATE;AGRICULTURE 7050.0110 SCOPE. AND WILDLIFE. 7050.0225 SPECIFIC WATER QUALITY STANDARDS FOR 7050.0130 GENERAL DEFINITIONS. CLASS 5 WATERS OF THE STATE; AESTHETIC 7050.0140 USE CLASSIFICATIONS FOR WATERS OF THE ENJOYMENT AND NAVIGATION. STATE. 7050.0226 SPECIFIC WATER QUALITY STANDARDS FOR 7050.0150 DETERMINATION OF WATER QUALITY, CLASS6WATERSOFTHESTATE;OTHERUSES. BIOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL CONDITIONS, 7050.0227 SPECIFIC WATER QUALITY STANDARDS FOR AND COMPLIANCE WITH STANDARDS. CLASS 7 WATERS OF THE STATE; LIMITED 7050.0170 NATURAL WATER QUALITY. RESOURCE VALUE WATERS. 7050.0180 NONDEGRADATION FOR OUTSTANDING CLASSIFICATIONS RESOURCE VALUE WATERS. 7050.0400 BENEFICIAL USE CLASSIFICATIONS FOR 7050.0185 NONDEGRADATION FOR ALL WATERS. SURFACE WATERS; SCOPE. 7050.0186 WETLAND STANDARDS AND MITIGATION. 7050.0405 PETITION BY OUTSIDE PARTY TO CONSIDER ATTAINABILITY OF USE. 7050.0190 VARIANCE FROM STANDARDS. 7050.0410 LISTED WATERS. 7050.0210 GENERAL STANDARDS FOR WATERS OF THE STATE. 7050.0420 TROUT WATERS. 7050.0217 OBJECTIVES FOR PROTECTION OF SURFACE 7050.0425 UNLISTED WETLANDS. WATERS FROM TOXIC POLLUTANTS. 7050.0430 UNLISTED WATERS. 7050.0218 METHODS FOR DETERMINATION OF CRITERIA 7050.0440 OTHER CLASSIFICATIONS SUPERSEDED. FOR TOXIC POLLUTANTS, FOR WHICH NUMERIC STANDARDS NOT PROMULGATED. 7050.0450 MULTICLASSIFICATIONS. 7050.0220 SPECIFIC WATER QUALITY STANDARDS BY 7050.0460 WATERS SPECIFICALLY CLASSIFIED; ASSOCIATED USE CLASSES. EXPLANATION OF LISTINGS IN PART 7050.0470. 7050.0221 SPECIFIC WATER QUALITY STANDARDS FOR 7050.0466 MAP: MAJOR SURFACE WATER DRAINAGE CLASS 1 WATERS OF THE STATE; DOMESTIC BASINS.