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Rainy - Rapid
Comprehensive watershed management plan
2023-2033
The Plan
The Rainy-Rapid Comprehensive Watershed Management Plan 2023-2033 is now being implemented through Watershed-Based Implementation Grants and other efforts of the Partnership.
Planning Partners
Partners include Lake of the Woods County and Lake of the Woods SWCD.
Maps of Rainy-Rapid Watersheds Planning Area
About the Rainy-Rapid Watershed Plan Area
The Rainy-Rapid Watershed Planning Area is a combination of the western portion of the Lower Rainy River Major Watershed and the entire Rapid River Major Watershed. A modified watershed boundary was proposed to the Board of Water and Soil Resources as a way to simplify the planning and implementation for this region.
What is Watershed-based Planning?
Minnesota has a long history of water management by local government. The One Watershed, One Plan concept is rooted in this history and in work initiated by the Local Government Water Roundtable (Association of Minnesota Counties, Minnesota Association of Watershed Districts, and Minnesota Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts) in 2011. It was recommended that the local governments charged with water management responsibility should organize and develop focused implementation plans on a watershed scale.
BWSR’s vision for One Watershed, One Plan is to align local water planning on major watershed boundaries with state strategies towards prioritized, targeted and measurable implementation plans – the next logical step in the evolution of water planning in Minnesota.
This Comprehensive Watershed Management Plan allows participating LGUs to align local water planning efforts along a uniform watershed boundary and ultimately result in more efficient resource management.