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• Associations
  
• County Governemnet Sites
• State Government Sites
• Federal Government Sites
• Environmental Sites
• Watersheds
  
• Water Resources and Experts

Associations

• Minnesota Lakes Association Web site - http://mnlakes.org/main_dev/index.cfm
• Minnesota Lakes Association Current Newsletter - http://mnlakes.org/main_dev/news.cfm
• DNR Minnesota's Watershed Basins - http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/watersheds/index.html
• The Minnesota Association of Watershed Districts (MAWD) represents 45 watershed districts in the state. The watershed districts are partners in water protection and management. - http://www.mnwatershed.org/
• Minnesota Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts (MASWCD) - http://www.maswcd.org
• Center for Watershed Protection
• Freshwater Foundation
• Minnesota Waters
• Minnesota Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts
• Irrigation Association
• Minnesota Association of Floodplain Managers
• Minnesota Ground Water Association

County Government sites:

• Kandiyohi County Soil & Water Conservation District - http://www.co.kandiyohi.mn.us/SWCD/

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State Government sites:

MPCA Contacts on Water Quality Standards - The following MPCA staff can answer questions and provide additional information on water quality standards. 
General: Mark Tomasek  651-296-7241 mark.tomasek@pca.state.mn.us
                Gerald Blaha      651-296-7245 gerald.blaha@pca.state.mn.us

Water Quality Standards page at the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s
http://www.pca.state.mn.us/water/standards/index.html

MPCA - Minnesota’s Impaired Waters 101 A very brief history of the Clean Water Act

http://www.fmr.org/mississippi/impaired_waters

• Minnesota’s Impaired Waters web site
• List of Minnesota’s impaired waters
• Maps of Minnesota’s impaired waters
• Minnesota’s water quality standards
• MPCA’s Impaired Waters fact sheet (56 KB PDF)
• Minnesota’s approved TMDLs and implementation plans

• Mn Dept of Health, Health Risk Limits for Groundwater - http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/eh/groundwater/hrlrule.html
• MPCA Streams and Rivers - http://www.pca.state.mn.us/water/streamsrivers.html
• MPCA Lakes - http://www.pca.state.mn.us/water/lake.html
• MPCA Ground Water - http://www.pca.state.mn.us/water/groundwater/index.html
• MPCA Environmental Data Access - http://www.pca.state.mn.us/data/eda/index.cfm
• MPCA Impaired Waters List and TMDL Process - http://www.pca.state.mn.us/water/tmdl.html
•  MPCA Guidance Manual for Assessing the Quality of Minnesota Surface Waters - http://www.pca.state.mn.us/publications/manuals/tmdl-guidancemanual.pdf   (1.2 Meg PDF)
• MPCA Proposed Water Quality Standards Revision - http://www.pca.state.mn.us/water/standards/rulechange.html
• MPCA Clean Water Council - http://www.pca.state.mn.us/water/cleanwatercouncil/index.html
• Minnesota DNR Maps, Publications, DNR News, etc - http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/
• Minnesota DNR Publications on Shoreline Alterations - http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/lakefind/index.html
• Minnesota Pollution Control Agency - http://www.pca.state.mn.us
• MN Shoreland Management Guide - http://www.shorelandmanagement.org 
• U of M Extension Service - http://www.extension.umn.edu
• Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance - http://www.moea.state.mn.us/
• Minnesota Sea Grant (Lake Superior) - http://www.seagrant.umn.edu/
• Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources (BWSR) - http://www.bwsr.state.mn.us 
• Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) - http://www.mn.nrcs.usda.gov

Federal Water Quality Standards Web Sites.

• U.S. EPA Water Standards
• U.S. EPA Water Quality Standards: guidance, laws and strategies
• U.S. EPA Drinking Water and Health Advisories
• Minnesota USGS
• U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) water resources
• U.S. EPA Water - Watershed finder
• U.S. Fish & Wildlife
• U.S.EPA - Office of Water
• U.S. National Technical Information Service
• FEDWORLD
• Climatology Working Group - DNR
• National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center
• U. S. Army Corps of Engineers
• Surf Your Watershed District, US Environmental Protection Agency
• Surf Your Minnesota Watershed District, US Environmental Protection Agency
• Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

Environmental Websites

• Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy (MCEA). - http://www.mncenter.org
  
• Minnesota Lakes Association - http://mnlakes.org/main_dev/
• Izaak Walton League - http://www.iwla.org/index.php?gclid=CLLYq52Q4ZQCFQQiIgodehDmRQ
• League of Conservation Voters - http://www.voteenvironment.org/
• Friends of the Mississippi River - http://www.fmr.org/
• The Minnesota Environmental Partnership (MEP) - http://www.mepartnership.org/
• National Audubon Society - http://www.audubon.org/
• The Sierra Club - http://www.sierraclub.org/
• A Guide for Watershed Partnerships - http://www.ctic.purdue.edu/KYW/Brochures/GetToKnow.html
• A Citizen's Guide to Understanding and Monitoring Lakes and Streams - http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/wq/plants/management/joysmanual/
• 1000 Friends of Minnesota - http://www.1000fom.org/
•  The Nature Conservancy Minnesota Chapter - http://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/minnesota/
•  Loon Watch Program, Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute - http://www.northland.edu/Northland/Soei/
•  Freshwater Society  - http://www.freshwater.org/
•  The Minnesota Ornithologists' Union - http://moumn.org/index.html

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Watersheds

• Hawk Creek Watershed - http://www.pca.state.mn.us/water/basins/mnriver/hawkyellow.html
• Crow River Watershed - http://www.crowriver.org/
• Middle Fork Crow River Watershed District - http://www.mfcrow.org/
• South Fork Crow River Association - http://www.sfcrow.org/

• Minnesota Watershed Map - http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/watersheds/map.html   - This map shows the 8 major basins and 81 major surface water watersheds. 
  

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