Our Comprehensive Plan
The Coon Creek Watershed District (CCWD) is a special purpose unit of government authorized by Minnesota Statute (M.S.) 103D. The CCWD also serves as a Water Management Organization (WMO) under M.S. 103B. WMOs exist only in the seven-county metropolitan area of Minneapolis-St. Paul and are organized around height of land drainage areas in this seven-county area. All WMOs are required to develop and implement a Comprehensive Watershed Management Plan for their area (M.S. 103B.231 and 103D.401).
The Comprehensive Watershed Management Plan serves to:
- Set overall goals for the district that are consistent with legislative mandates
- Respond to local health, safety and welfare needs
- Develop a course of action to accomplish or make progress towards those goals.
- Disclose and justify to the public and overseeing agencies
- Why district activities are essential to the public and private good
- How the district will “systematically administer water policy for the public welfare” (M.S. 103A.211)
- To what degree a district exercises its three basic governmental powers (to tax, regulate and spend)
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Planning Process for 2024-33 Plan
Our Comp Plan was approved by the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources on October 23, 2024 and was adopted by the Coon Creek Watershed District Board of Managers on Tuesday, November 12, 2024.
Background: In May 2022 the District initiated the first step to amend the CCWD Comprehensive Watershed Management Plan with the publication of Notice of Intent to Amend Comprehensive Watershed Management Plan. Public input was sought during July and August 2022 and Advisory Committee and agency input solicited during fall of 2022. The Notice for Plan Initiation was sent out January 4, 2023, to all stakeholders and the Plan Initiation was held during a regularly scheduled Board meeting on January 23, 2023.
The second step, Mission & Problem Analysis, required by M.S. 103B.231 and M.R. 8410.0045, is intended as an intellectual “starting line” for discussions about present and future water resource management issues, the structure of future operating environment that influences those resources, and water management in the Coon Creek Watershed District.
A 60-day review was held December 2023-February 2024 when comments were received on the initial draft plan. Responses were given to 298 comments and a Public Hearing was held on July 29, 2024, on the comment responses.