Pomme de Terre River Watershed Report

The Pomme de Terre River watershed, an 875 square mile, predominately rural watershed, is located in west central Minnesota within the Minnesota River Basin. The northern portion of the watershed is located in the Northern Central Forest Ecoregion while the central and southern portions are located in the Northern Glaciated Plains Ecoregion (Figure 1A). The population of the watershed is approximately 16,000 people and the watershed contains the larger cities of Morris and Appleton. Portions of six counties are within the watershed. Those counties are: Otter Tail, Douglas, Grant, Stevens, Swift, and Big Stone. The watershed contains six HUC-10 subwatersheds, 68 stream reach AUIDs, and 217 lakes