The High Island Creek and Rush River watersheds are located in the Lower Minnesota River watershed, in south central Minnesota. The 2008 303(d) impaired waters lists developed by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) inlucdes reaches of High Island Creek and Rush River. Water quality monitoring indicates these stream reaches fail to meet the standard for human contact due to excessive amounts of fecal coliform bacteria. The Minnesota State Unversity, Mankato Water Resources Center prepared a Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) report documenting the impairments.
The purpose of this reconnaissance study is to evaluate the potential for Federal interest in implementing solutions to flooding, navigation, low flow augmentation, recreation, ecosystem restoration, and other related water resource problems and opportunities in the Minnesota River Basin (MRB) in Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Iowa.
Minnesota River Recreation Development Association
The Minnesota River Recreation Development Association issues the “Report on the Minnesota River for the 1963 Legislature.” This report provides a historical timeline, work accomplished to make the river more useful for transportation, geographic data, maps and additional information.
