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Water Publications

The documents below provide information about water and water-quality issues in Minnesota.

Fact Sheets

• Water Fact Sheets. MPCA's water-related fact sheets provide quick and useful information about a variety of topics, ranging from basin management to the State Revolving Fund Loan Program.
  
  
• Ground Water
  
  
• Lakes
  • Water Quality Reports
  • Lake Assessment Reports: by county
  • Citizen Lake Monitoring Program Publications
    
• Streams
  • Citizen Stream Monitoring Reports

Guidance Documents

• Wastewater Technical Guidance Documents. These publications provide technical information and guidance on topics ranging from design criteria for stabilization ponds to reliability for mechanical wastewater treatment plants. These documents are especially useful to municipal and industrial dischargers.

Guides

• Floristic Quality Assessment for Minnesota Wetlands
• Plants for Stormwater Design
• Volunteer Surface Water Monitoring Guide

Newsletters

• Secchi Reader - Citizen Lake Monitoring Program

Reports

• Baseline Water Quality of Minnesota's Principal Aquifers

• Duluth Metropolitan Area Streams Snowmelt Runoff Study

• Impaired Waters and Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Reports

• Minnesota Nonpoint Source Pollution Management Report - Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund

• Minnesota's Water Quality Monitoring Strategy. A Report Prepared for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, August 2004. The report describes a 10-year plan for surface and ground water monitoring. The plan includes information on all types of monitoring — condition monitoring, problem investigation monitoring and effectiveness monitoring — along with a timeline for implementation.

• Minnesota Water Quality Report: Surface Water Section (Abbreviated Narrative Report) - Report to the Congress of the United States: Water Years 2004-2005. This report integrates 305b assessments, which measure attainment of standards for fishable and swimmable waters, and 303d (TMDL) listings of impaired waters. Assessments are organized by basin for the entire state and the report also presents statewide summaries. The report describes Minnesota's monitoring and assessment strategy, assessment tools, and the integrated assessment process. It also briefly describes the state's response to these assessments in terms of development and implementaion of TMDLs and special state strategies.
  
  
• Protecting Water Quality in Urban Areas - Stormwater Best Management Practices Manual
  
  
• Stormwater and Wetlands: Planning and Evaluation Guidelines for Addressing Potential Impacts of Urban Stormwater and Snow-Melt Runoff on Wetlands
  
  
• Water Quality Point Source Permiting and Compliance - 2003 Progress Report to the Legislature
  
  
• Watershed Achievements: Annual Report to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Clean Water Act Section 319 and Clean Water Partnership Projects in Minnesota

  • 2007 Annual Report (file size = 14 MB)

  • 2006 Annual Report (file size = 2.5 MB)

  • 2005 Annual Report (file size = 3.1 MB)

  • 2004 Annual Report

  • 2003 Annual Report

Related Information

• MPCA General Publications
• Publications about Air
• Publications about Cleanup
• Publications about Waste
• Environmental Guide for Small Businesses in Minnesota