Mustinka River Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy Stressor Identification Report

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA), in response to the Clean Water Legacy Act, has developed a strategy for improving water quality of the state's streams, rivers, wetlands, and lakes in Minnesota's 81 Major Watersheds, known as Major Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS). A WRAPS is comprised of several types of assessments. The MPCA conducted the first assessment, known as the Intensive Watershed Monitoring Assessment (IWM), during the summers of 2010 and 2011. The IWM assessed the aquatic biology and water chemistry of the MRW streams and rivers. The second assessment, known as the Stressor Identification Assessment (SID), builds on the results of the IWM. The MPCA conducted the SID assessment during the summers of 2012 and 2013. This document reports on the second step of a multi-part WRAPS for the Mustinka River watershed (MRW), located at the headwaters of the Red River Basin (RRB). It is important to recognize that this report is part of a series, and thus not a stand-alone document. Information pertinent to understanding this report can be found in the Mustinka River Watershed Monitoring and Assessment (M&A) Report. That document should be read together with this Stressor ID Report and can be found from a link on the MPCA's MRW webpage;