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)