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What is the MCWD Land Conservation Program?
Is there a fact sheet about MCWD Land Conservation Program?
What are the priority areas for MCWD's Land Conservation Program?
How does the MCWD and Hennepin County
conservation partnership work?
What is the MCWD Land Conservation Program?
| The Minnehaha Creek Watershed District (MCWD) is committed to a leadership role in protecting, improving, and managing surface waters and affiliated ground water resources within the District, including their relationships to the ecosystems of which they are an integral part. In fulfilling its mission, MCWD is looking to use every available tool to protect and enhance water resources. |
Land protection is one of many tools MCWD uses to meet clean water goals. The health of a water body is a reflection of the land use in the area of land that drains to it, or its watershed. As the intensity of human land use increases, water quality goes down and habitat is degraded.Traditionally, water quality protection tools have operated just before polluted water reaches its downstream destination (a lake, river, or stream).The Land Conservation Program works to protect land at critical watershed drainage areas and restore degraded habitats upstream. By doing this we reduce the need for expensive infrastructure downstream, reducing costs for taxpayers and developers.
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The result is a green infrastructure of open spaces and natural areas that not only takes advantage of the free water quality services provided by Mother Nature, but also provides a number of other benefits
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Read more about the land conservation program in MCWD's Water Pro Newsletter.
Land Conservation Program Fact Sheet
MCWD's Land Conservation Program Priority Areas
MCWD Land Conservation Program Priority Areas (PDF)
For more information contact MCWD's Land Conservation Staff.
Looking to jumpstart a water quality initiative already recognized as among the most proactive in the state, the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District (MCWD) has entered into a $20 million partnership with Hennepin County that promises to pay dividends for decades to come... Click here to read the full story Click here to read more about this partnership in MCWD's Water Pro Newsletter (Vol. 3, Issue 1) |
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