Mississippi River-St. Cloud Watershed Stressor Identification Update, 2022

This report details the SID process for the Mississippi River-St. Cloud Watershed, following the second cycle of biological monitoring. This report also contains SID work that was completed after the first cycle of watershed monitoring, on stations that were channelized. Until the Tiered Aquatic Life Use (TALU) assessment process was written into rule in 2014, the MPCA did not have the tools to assess channelized streams. Stations that were sampled in 2009 on channelized streams, were not assessed until TALU criteria were finalized; as a result, these Assessment Unit Identification (AUIDs) were not included in the cycle I SID report (MPCA 2013).