Local Water Management Plan Lac Qui Parle
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Lac qui Parle County Local Water Management Plan 2003 - 2012 With Implementation Update in 2008 Dredge at Marsh Lake, 1938 Prepared by Midwest Community Planning, LLC, with assistance from The Upper Minnesota Valley Regional Development Commission This page was intentionally left blank to allow for double-sided printing. Lac qui Parle County Water Plan Table of Contents Introduction to the Lac qui Parle County Water Plan .................................................. v Chapter One: County Profile and Executive Summary .............................. Ch. 1 Pg. 1 Role of the County Board, Water Planning Committee and Citizen Participation ................. 1 Lac qui Parle County Water Plan Committee Members ........................................................ 2 Lac qui Parle County’s Population and Location.................................................................... 2 Previous Lac qui Parle County Water Planning Accomplishments ........................................ 4 Lac qui Parle County Clean Water Partnerships/Watershed Projects ..................................... 7 Lac qui Parle – Yellow Bank Watershed Project ......................................................... 8 Watershed Districts ................................................................................................................. 9 Lac qui Parle – Yellow Bank Watershed District......................................................... 9 Upper Minnesota River Watershed District ................................................................. 9 Lake Associations.................................................................................................................. 10 Chapter Two: Lac qui Parle County’s 55 Data Items ................................. Ch. 2 Pg. 1 Data Item 1: Precipitation Gauging Stations ........................................................................... 1 Data Item 2: Total Precipitation .............................................................................................. 1 Data Item 3: Seasonal Precipitation......................................................................................... 1 Data Item 4: Hydrology........................................................................................................... 3 Data Item 5: Ground & Surface Water Interconnections ........................................................ 3 Data Item 6: Watersheds.......................................................................................................... 4 Upper Minnesota River Watershed .............................................................................. 6 Lac qui Parle River Watershed..................................................................................... 8 Yellow Medicine-Hawk Creek Watershed................................................................... 9 Data Item 7: State Public Waters........................................................................................... 11 Data Item 8: Soils .................................................................................................................. 12 Data Item 9: Erosion Prone Soils .......................................................................................... 12 Water Erosion Prone .................................................................................................. 12 Wind Erosion Prone.................................................................................................... 14 Data Item 10: Original Vegetation ........................................................................................ 14 Data Item 11: Topography................................................................................................. 4, 14 Data Item 12: Land Use......................................................................................................... 14 Data Item 13: Public Water, Storm Sewer & Sanitary Sewer Systems................................. 18 Data Item 14: Community Public Water Supplies ................................................................ 18 Data Item 15: Land Ownership ............................................................................................. 20 Data Item 16: Water Resource and Related Easements ........................................................ 20 Conservation Reserve Program .................................................................................. 18 Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program ........................................................... 20 Reinvest in Minnesota Reserve Program.................................................................... 22 Wetland Reserve Program ......................................................................................... 22 U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Easements.................................................................... 23 Data Item 17: High, Mean & Low Flow of Streams ............................................................. 23 Data Item 18: Ordinary High Water Levels for Lakes .......................................................... 24 Lac qui Parle County i Water Plan Table of Contents continued … Data Item 19: Permitted Surface Water Appropriations...........................Appendix B & 25 Data Item 20: State Protected Levels and Stream Flows....................................................... 25 Data Item 21: Water Use Conflicts........................................................................................ 26 Data Item 22: Permitted Groundwater Appropriations .................................Appendix B & 25 Data Item 23: Known Well Interference Problems ............................................................... 26 Data Item 24: Observation Wells .......................................................................................... 26 Data Item 25: Water Quality Management Classifications................................................... 28 Data Items 26 & 27: Surface Water Quality Data (Including Informal Sources) ................. 28 Lake Water Quality Assessment Reports ................................................................... 28 Citizen Lake Monitoring Program.............................................................................. 29 Citizen Stream Monitoring Program .......................................................................... 29 Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDL) ...................................................................... 30 STORET..................................................................................................................... 30 Data Item 28: Groundwater Quality ...................................................................................... 31 Minnesota Pollution Control Agency......................................................................... 31 MDA Nitrate Water Testing Program ........................................................................ 31 Data Item 29: Eroding Lands & Nonpoint Source Pollution................................................. 32 Data Item 30: Effects of Land Use & Cover on Runoff........................................................ 32 Data Item 31: Irrigation Areas............................................................................................... 33 Data Item 32: Irrigation over 1,000 Acres............................................................................. 33 Data Item 33 & 34: Public Drainage Systems....................................................................... 33 Data Item 35: Potential Pollutant Sources............................................................................. 33 Dumps and Sanitary Landfills .................................................................................... 33 Federal Superfund Sites.............................................................................................. 34 Individual Sewage Treatment Systems (ISTS)........................................................... 34 Data Item 36: Feedlots, Unsealed Abandoned Wells, Underground Storage Tanks and Permitted Wastewater Dischargers.................................................................. 34 Feedlots (see Chapter 3, Page 21................................................................ Ch.3 Pg. 21 Abandoned Wells....................................................................................................... 35 Underground Storage Tanks....................................................................................... 36 Permitted Wastewater Dischargers............................................................................. 36 Data Item 37: Hazardous Waste Generators.......................................................................... 36 Superfund Sites........................................................................................................... 37 Data Item 38: Special Geologic Conditions (see Data Items 4 & 5) ...................................... 3 Data Item 39 & 40: Wetlands & Plans for Controlled Outlets.............................................. 37 Data Item 41: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Section 404.................................................. 41 Data Items 42, 43 & 44: Floodplains, Flood Prone Areas & Flood Damages ...................... 42 Data Items 45 & 46: Protected Waters and Shoreland Ordinances....................................... 44 Data Items 47 & 48: Water-Based Recreational Lands& Public Water Accesses................ 45 Data Item 49: State and Federal Wild and Scenic Rivers/Canoe