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)
Current Comprehensive Management Plan
Full Comprehensive Plan (Print View)
Full Comprehensive Plan (Digital View)
- Introduction: Executive Summary, Organization, Glossary, Acronyms
- Part One: Background & Disclosures
- Part Two: Implementation Plan
- Appendix
This plan was amended December 2025 (Public Notice)
