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Minnesota River Basin
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State of the Minnesota River: Surface Water Quality Monitoring (Link to all)
Summary 2000-2005
Executive Summary 2003
Executive Summary 2002
Executive Summary 2001
Executive Summary 2000

2000-2005 Report
2003 Full Report
2002 Full Report
2001 Full Report
2000 Full Report

Bacteria in the Minnesota River. Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and Minnesota River Board Fact Sheet. (pdf 798 k)

Clean Up of Minnesota River Produces Mixed Results. Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy. October 2002. (MCEA website)

Computer Model a Useful Tool in Water Quality Research. Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. April 2003. (pdf 658 k)

Dissolved Oxygen Problem in the Lower Minnesota River. Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. May 2003. (pdf 557k)

Evaluation of Factors Influencing Fish Assemblages in the Minnesota River. The Joint Institute for Energy and Environment. September 15, 1999. (pdf 522 k)

Evaluating Progress of Biological Condition in Streams of the Minnesota River Basin. Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. October 2002. (pdf 1,535 k)

Minnesota River Assessment Project Report, Executive Summary. Report to the Legislative Commission on Minnesota Resources. January 1994.

Minnesota River Basin Plan Fact Sheet. Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. April 2002. (pdf 227k)

Minnesota River Basin Plan. Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. December 2001. (pdf 1,558 k)

Minnesota River Citizens' Advisory Committee Progress Report. January 1994. (pdf 970 k)

Minnesota River Study Shows Reductions in Key Pollutants. Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Fact Sheet. September 2002. (pdf 169 k)

Minnesota River Watershed Comprehensive Recreational Guidance Document & Trail Corridor Concept Plan. December 1998.

Minnesota River Watershed Drainage Policy Reform Report. Coalition for a Clean Minnesota River. 2004. (pdf 733 k)

Perception of Wetland Values in South Central Minnesota. Minnesota State University, Mankato Water Resources Center. May 2005.

Progress on a Long Voyage: Decades of Effort Show Improvement in Minnesota River Water Quality. Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. January 2007. (pdf 1.2 mb)

Resident Perceptions of the Minnesota River Basin. St. Cloud State Survey. November 2005. (pdf 1.2 mb)

Phosphorus in the Minnesota River. Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and Minnesota River Board Fact Sheet. (pdf 573 k)

Working Together: A Plan to Restore the Minnesota River. The Minnesota River Citizens' Advisory Committee's Final Report to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. December 1994. (pdf 2,870 k)

The Rapidan Dam Research Project: Environmental impacts of converting a run-of-the-river low head hydroelectric dam to a peaking operation. Water Resources Center, Minnesota State University, Mankato. October 2004.

Chippewa River
Chippewa River Watershed website (www.chippewariver.com)

Chippewa River Benthic Macro-Invertebrate Biomonitoring Network Report 2003-04. Chippewa River Watershed Project. 2004. (pdf 1,876 k)

Chippewa River Un-ionized Ammonia TMDL Report. Cadmus Group. June 2004. (pdf 1,867 k)

Chippewa River Watershed Monitoring Summary 2003. Chippewa River Watershed Project. 2003. (pdf 951 k)

Cottonwood River
Redwood-Cottonwood Rivers Control Area website (http://www.rcrca.com)

RCRA 2003 Annual Report. Redwood-Cottonwood Rivers Control Area. 2003. (pdf 2,349 k)

High Island Creek
High Island Watershed website (http://cgee.hamline.edu/rivers/MRN/HIWAP/)

Indian Creek
Indian Creek Watershed Master Plan & Clean Water Partnership website (http://www.houstoneng.com/indiancreek/)

Le Sueur River
Le Sueur River Major Watershed Diagnostic Report. Le Sueur River Basin Implementation Framework, MPCA Clean Water Partnership Project #951-1-194-07. October 2000.

Little Cottonwood River
Little Cottonwood River Watershed website (http://mrbdc.mnsu.edu/org/bnc/littlecottonwood.html)

Lower Minnesota River
Dissolved Oxygen Problem in the Lower Minnesota River. Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. May 2003. (pdf 557k)

High Island Watershed website (http://cgee.hamline.edu/rivers/MRN/HIWAP/)

Lower Minnesota River Watershed website (http://wrc.coafes.umn.edu/lowermn/)

Rush River Watershed website (http://mrbdc.mnsu.edu/major/lowminn/subshed/rush/index.html)

Middle Minnesota River
Indian Creek Watershed Master Plan & Clean Water Partnership website
(http://www.houstoneng.com/indiancreek/)

Little Cottonwood River website (http://mrbdc.mnsu.edu/org/bnc/littlecottonwood.html)

Seven Mile Creek Watershed website (http://mrbdc.mnsu.edu/org/bnc/sevenmile.html)

Redwood River
Redwood-Cottonwood Rivers Control Area website (http://www.rcrca.com)

Evolution of Watershed Restoration. Redwood River Clean Water Project Final Report. Redwood-Cottonwood Rivers Control Area. 2001. (pdf 3,045 k)

RCRA 2003 Annual Report. Redwood-Cottonwood Rivers Control Area. 2003. (pdf 2,349 k)

Rush River
Rush River Watershed website (http://mrbdc.mnsu.edu/major/lowminn/subshed/rush/index.html)

Seven Mile Creek
Seven Mile Creek Publications website (http://mrbdc.mnsu.edu/org/bnc/sevenmile.html)

Seven-Mile Creek Watershed Project: A Resource Investigation within the Middle Minnesota Major Watershed. MPCA Clean Water Partnership Project. October 2001.

Watonwan River
Watonwan River Major Watershed Diagnostic Report. Blue Earth River Basin Implementation Framework, MPCA Clean Water Partnership Project #1943. October 2000.

Impact of Minnesota River on Lake Pepin and the Mississippi River. Kent Johnson. Minnesota River Research Forum Presentation, 2002

Impaired Waters Modeling (HSPF). Jim Klang and Larry Gunderson. Minnesota River Research Forum Presentation, 2004.

TMDLs in the Minnesota River Basin. Jim Klang. Minnesota River Research Forum Presentation, 2002.

Multiple Benefits of Agriculture. Caroline vanSchaik. Minnesota River Research Forum Presentation, 2004.

Nutrient Management for Sugar Beets. Kelvin Thompsen. Minnesota River Research Forum Presentation, 2004.

Paired Watershed Study. David Mulla. Minnesota River Research Forum Presentation, 2004.

Phosphorus Index. Neil Hansen. Minnesota River Research Forum Presentation, 2004.

Relationship between Agro-ecoregions and Water Quality. David Mulla. Minnesota River Research Forum Presentation, 2002.

Trend Analysis for Phosphorus, TSS, Ammonia and BOD (1970s - 2001) David Christopherson. Minnesota River Research Forum Presentation, 2002.

Water Quality Trading Opportunities in the Minnesota River Basin. Presentation to Minnesota River Board. April 7, 2005  (pps 3.8mb)

Annotated Bibliography for the Minnesota River Basin (1860s to 1999) web page (http://mrbdc.mnsu.edu/reports/basin/annotatedbib.html)

Minnesota River Research Forum website (http://mrbdc.mnsu.edu/event/event.html)

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Publications about the Minnesota River Basin website (http://www.pca.state.mn.us/water/basins/mnriver/publications.html)

University of Minnesota Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, Projects and Programs website
(http://www.soils.umn.edu/research/projectsandprograms.php)

University of Minnesota Water Resources Center, Research Topics website (http://wrc.coafes.umn.edu/research/project-list.htm)

Metropolitan Council Environmental Services - Stream Monitoring web page
http://www.metrocouncil.org/environment/RiversLakes/Streams/index.htm

Minnesota Department of Agriculture website
http://www.mda.state.mn.us/

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Environmental Data Access
http://www.pca.state.mn.us/data/eda/index.cfm

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