Hawk Creek Watershed and Surrounding Direct Minnesota River Tributaries Restoration and Protection Strategies

Hawk Creek Watershed and Surrounding Direct Minnesota River Tributaries Restoration and Protection Strategies

2017-09

Minnesota has adopted a “watershed approach” to address water quality within the state’s 80 major watersheds. The watershed approach follows a 10-year cycle where water bodies are 1) monitored for chemistry and biology and assessed to determine if they are fishable and swimmable, 2) pollutants and stressors and their sources are identified, and then local partners and citizens are engaged to help 3) develop strategies to restore and protect water bodies, and 4) plan and implement restoration and protection projects. This WRAPS report summarizes work done in Steps 1 - 3 above in this first cycle of the Watershed Approach in the Hawk Watershed. The Hawk Watershed area drains approximately 626,000 acres to the Minnesota River. Fifteen towns and cities are in or partially in, the watershed including: Bird Island, Clara City, Granite Falls, Montevideo, Olivia, and Willmar, as are portions of three counties: Renville, Kandiyohi, and Chippewa. Land use in the watershed is dominated by cultivated crops. Roughly, 35,000 people and 156,000 feedlot animal units reside in the watershed.

Boettcher, Joanne

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency MPCA https://www.pca.state.mn.us/

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (St. Paul, Minnesota)

93

Water Restoration & Protection

Hawk creek watershed
Minnesota
Impaired waters
Watershed restoration and protection strategies
WRAPS
E. coli
Bacteria
Turbidity
Total suspended solids
Phosphorus
Nutrients

Minnesota River - Yellow Medicine River (07020004)

Renville
Kandiyohi
Chippewa

2010-2019

No

Public Domain

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency