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Koochiching County adopts three watershed management plans to access implementation funds
Summary
The Koochiching County Board of Commissioners voted to adopt and begin implementing the Rainy River–Rainy Lake, Rainy Rapid, and Rainy Headwaters–Vermilion watershed management plans, making the county eligible to seek implementation grants and cost-share funds targeted at water-quality, septic, shoreline and solid-waste projects.
Koochiching County on Jan. 14 approved resolutions adopting three watershed-based comprehensive water-management plans — Rainy River–Rainy Lake, Rainy Rapid and Rainy Headwaters–Vermilion — and authorized the county to begin pursuing implementation funding tied to those plans.
The actions move the county from a countywide plan framework to watershed-based plans that the Board of Water and Soil Resources must approve before implementation funding becomes available. County staff said the plans open access to implementation dollars for projects such as septic and wastewater cost-share or low-interest loans, shoreland and floodplain ordinance updates, streambank and shoreline stabilization,…
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