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Red Lake Watershed District Projects and Reports

The purpose of the Watershed District is to provide local organization to coordinate all water management decisions in the Watershed. Through these projects, local people are provided with legal and financial authority with which to act upon locally initiated projects aimed at solutions to water problems. Below is a listing of RLWD projects. Many of these projects have workplans or reports associated with them. If information on the project is available online, the name of the project, or any documents listed under the project will be in a blue font. Project and document names shown in a blue font are links. Click on a link to view information about a project. The sizes of large report files are noted in red so that you may estimate the download time. 

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New Items:  Clearwater River Dissolved Oxygen and Fecal Coliform TMDL Study, 
                   Thief River Watershed Sediment Investigation, Ditch Inventory Project, Tile Drainage Study,                    Standard Operating Procedures, Rev. 7

Natural Resource Conservation Service/Cost Sharing Projects

• Roy Abraham Dam - Clearwater County

• Odney Flaat Dam - Polk County

• Thibert-Knutson Dams - Red Lake County

• Gentilly Group Project - Polk County

• Burnham Creek Channel Improvement - Polk County

• Burnham Creek Structure, BR-6 - Polk County

RLWD Flood Control and Engineering Projects

• RLWD Ditch Inventory Project

• Moose River Impoundment - Beltrami County

• Baird-Beyer Dam - Red Lake County

• Lost River Pool - Marshall County

• Black River Dam - Red Lake County

• Elm Lake Restoration - Marshall County

• Red Lake River Riprap - Polk and Pennington Counties

• Thief River Riprap - Pennington County

• Parnell Impoundment - Polk County

Water Quality Projects

• Bagley Urban Runoff Reduction – Clearwater County

• Beaver Pond Analysis (246 kb) – Beltrami and Clearwater Counties

• Cameron Lake Watershed Monitoring – Polk County

  • Cameron Lake Study Sections 1-4 (7,800 kb)

  • Cameron Lake Study Results and Annexes (13.5 mb)

• Clearwater Lake Management Plan (link to CLMP webpage) – Clearwater and Beltrami Counties

• Clearwater Lake Water Quality Model Project  – Clearwater and Beltrami Counties

  • Final Report Chapters 1-10 (2,500 kb)

  • Final Report Chapters 11-13 (6,500 kb)

  • Final Report Appendix A & B (243 kb)

  • Final Report Appendix C & D (287 kb)

• Clearwater Nonpoint Study - Pennington, Polk, Red Lake, and Clearwater Counties

• Clearwater Nonpoint Study Phase II

  • Bank Stabilization Project (74 kb) – Red Lake and Clearwater Counties

  • Wild Rice Water Quality Improvements Project (395 kb) – Clearwater County

  • Conservation Riparian Buffer Strip Program (80 kb) – Clearwater County

  • Public Education (Riverwatch) Project (435 kb) – Polk, Red Lake, Marshall, Clearwater, and Beltrami Counties

• Clearwater River Dissolved Oxygen and Fecal Coliform TMDL Study

  • Work Plan (139 kb)

  • Quality Assurance Project Plan (620 kb)

  • March 21, 2007 Stakeholder Meeting - Presentation (3.63 mb) - Notes 

  • December 1, 2006 Stakeholder Meeting - Presentation (2.94 mb) - Notes 

• Clearwater River Environmental Study (12,808 kb) - Pennington, Polk, Red Lake, and Clearwater Counties

• Clearwater River Intensive Low Flow Monitoring – Red Lake, Polk, and Clearwater Counties

• Clearwater River Stream Bank Stabilization and Revitalization Project

  • Clearwater River Bank Stabilization and Revitalization Project Final Report      (41.1 mb) - This is a large file so right click on the link and select Save As to download the file instead of just left clicking on the link.

  • Clearwater River Bank Stabilization and Revitalization Project Final Report  - photographic monitoring section only. (13 mb)

  • 2005 Photographic Monitoring Only (3,466 kb)

  • Lost River Erosion Control Project (Gully 6) – Clearwater County

    • Report Text (1,500 kb)

    • Appendices (9,300 kb)

• Glacial Ridge/Nature Conservancy Water Quality Project – Polk County

• Good Lake Water Quality Bioassessment (293 kb) – Clearwater and Beltrami Counties

• Habitat/Bioassessment on the Clearwater River (217 kb) – Clearwater, Beltrami, Polk, and Red Lake Counties

• Hydrogen Sulfide Testing – Pennington and Marshall Counties

  • Hydrogen Sulfide Study Pages 1-5 (2,695 kb)

  • Hydrogen Sulfide Study Pages 6-9 (4,704 kb)

  • Hydrogen Sulfide Study Pages 10-13 (4,705 kb)

  • Hydrogen Sulfide Study Pages 14-15 (2,382 kb)

  • Hydrogen Sulfide Study Pages 16-18 (3,369 kb)

• Maple Lake/JD 73 Study – Polk County

  • Part 1 (8,226 kb)

  • Part 2 (5,566 kb)

  • Part 3 (4,319 kb)

• Red Lake River Corridor Enhancement Project

• Red Lake Watershed Field to Stream Tile Drainage Study

  • Quality Assurance Project Plan Cover (5.23 mb)

  • Quality Assurance Project Plan (16.4 mb)

  • Presentation to 2006 Tile Drainage Workshop

  • Tile Drainage Water Quality Study Brochure (1.12 mb)

  • Tile Drainage Study Final Report (11.2 mb)

  • Tile Drainage Study Final Report Cover (80 kb)

• Red River Watershed Assessment Protocol (485 kb) – Red Lake Watershed District and the entire Red River Basin

  • 2004 Water Quality Report Cover (3.11 mb)

  • 2004 Water Quality Report Body (11.2 mb)

  • Red River Basin River Watch Quality Assurance Project Plan (880 kb)

  • Red River Watershed Water Quality Reporting Handbook

  • Standard Operating Procedures for Water Quality Monitoring in the Red River Watershed (6.52 mb)

• Thief River Falls Dissolved Oxygen Study – Pennington County, Marshall County

• Thief River Falls Reservoir Study – Pennington County

  • Part 1 (5,680 kb)

  • Part 2 (7,000 kb)

  • Part 3 (4,630 kb)

• Thief River Watershed Sediment Investigation

• Work Plan (4,255 kb)

• TMDLs on the Clearwater River (6 kb) - Clearwater and Beltrami Counties

• Total Suspended Sediment Red Lake River – Pennington County

• Turtle/Cross Lake Water Quality Study (547 kb) – Polk County

• Union Lake/ Lake Sarah Study – Polk County