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Produced to provide background information for a revised overall plan for the Lower Minnesota River Watershed District, this report includes detailed sections on the watershed's lakes and streams; specific pollution problems (e.g., sewage, landfill, and agricultural); ground and surface water; hydrologic conditions; flooding; and recreational, industrial, and public aspects. Each section provides recommendations for future action; recommendations are also categorized by the agency or group that would find them of interest. Numerous maps and charts illustrate the text.

This inventory report was intended to provide data and investigation results on the Blue Earth River subbasin as an interim step toward a comprehensive environmental conservation and development plan for the Southern Minnesota Rivers Basin. The information is described by the authors as "preliminary and incomplete," and was meant to be corrected and expanded by future efforts.

Reporting on the results of a survey of the east branch of the Chippewa River, a major tributary of the Minnesota River, this document includes a description of the watershed (e.g., physical features, climate, and economic factors), land use (uplands, wetlands, and land ownership), and survey methodology. Results cover the classification of lakes and wetlands, water chemistry, fish and fish lakes, and wildlife habitat and hunting. Descriptions of wetland types and survey data on lakes are appended.

Providing information on watershed conditions and wildlife habitation within the Upper Watonwan watershed, this report contains brief descriptions of topography, soils, scale, climate, and land use, as well as a more extensive section of fishery and wildlife habitat, population, and hunter use. It offers recommendations for fishery and wildlife management in relation to the use of retention sites and channeling for flood control.