Yellow Medicine River and Surrounding Direct Minnesota River Tributaries Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategies

Yellow Medicine River and Surrounding Direct Minnesota River Tributaries Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategies

2016-11

The Yellow Medicine Watershed in southwestern Minnesota drains over 700,000 acres into the Minnesota River. This Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategies (WRAPS) report summarizes the condition of surface water resources (i.e. lakes and streams), the scale and types of changes needed to restore and protect waters, and options and available tools to prioritize and target conservation work on the landscape in the Yellow Medicine Watershed. The work summarized in the WRAPS report will be expanded and revised every 10 years as part of the state of Minnesota’s “Watershed Approach”. The identified pollutants and stressors in the Yellow Medicine are: altered hydrology, sediment, phosphorus, nitrogen, bacteria, habitat and dissolved oxygen (DO).

Boettcher, Joanne
Weckwerth, Mike

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency

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

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (St. Paul, Minnesota)

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Water Restoration & Protection

Yellow medicine river watershed
Minnesota river basin
Minnesota
Impaired waters
Watershed restoration and protection strategies
WRAPS
E. coli
Bacteria
Turbidity
Total suspended solids
Phosphorus
Nutrients

Yellow Medicine River

Minnesota River - Yellow Medicine River (07020004)

Yellow Medicine

2010-2019

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Public Domain

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency