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)
2025 Minor Plan Amendment
Public Notice
Monday, November 10th, 5:30 pm – All residents of the Watershed District are invited to attend a public hearing on the proposed minor amendments to the Coon Creek Watershed District 2024-2033 Comprehensive Watershed Management Plan, required per M. S. 103B and M.R. 8410, administered by the MN Board of Water and Soil Resources. (Full notice)
Redline Documents
- Summary of proposed changes
- Redlined pages only
- Full Comprehensive Plan – Redlined (digital view)
- Full Comprehensive Plan – Redlined (Print View)