1. Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategies (WRAPS) and Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDLs) Justin Watkins and Barb Peichel, MPCA

2. WRAPS & TMDL Schedule

3. The Watershed Approach  An organizational framework and scheduling approach by which MN meets requirements of the Federal Clean Water Act and the MN Clean Water Legacy Act and added accountability language  MPCA leads/facilitates  Local partners provide much of the substance  WRAPS are important in pursuing money for conservation work  A Product: WRAPS… >>> next slide 3

4. Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategies Report  A concise useful summary document  How are waters doing?  What are causes of water quality problems?  What are focus areas for:  Making improvements,  Protecting good waters?  What are best strategies to restore and protect waters?  Who is responsible for doing the work and what is approximate timeline for doing it? 4

5. WRAPS Components 5

6. Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategies Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) provide:  How much pollutant reduction or protection is needed to meet standard, achieve goal or improve trend  Where the water pollution problems are coming from (approx. at HUC 12 scale)  Propose a pace of progress.  TMDL with WLA and LA that goes to EPA. 6 Local Government Comprehensive Watershed Management Plan will use WRAPS to establish:  How to fix problems or threats (project and practice design)  Priority/Sequence for fixing water problems or threats  Who will have responsibility for fixes  Pursuit of $ resources to accomplish fixes.

7. Upper Mississippi River Bacteria TMDL Study & Protection Plan Project Phil Votruba Project Manager, MPCA Barb Peichel Project Manager, MPCA Art Persons/Mark Wettlaufer Project Manager, MPCA

9. Microbial Source Tracking Study (UMN) (Humans + Pets) Literature Reviews

10. Priority Source Water Areas for St. Cloud, Minneapolis, and St. Paul Drinking Water Suppliers

11. Sources of Chloride Twin Cities Metro Area Chloride Management Project Brooke Asleson & Rachel Olmanson, MPCA

12. Thief River Falls Public Drinking Water Supply Denise Oakes, MPCA Source is Red Lake River (class 1C, 2Bd, 3C water) about a mile downstream of the confluence of the Thief River.

13. Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge (NWR)

14. Management of Drinking Water Problem Currently, the NWR notifies the City of planned discharges so they can plan for adequate treatment. Thief River WRAPS is currently being drafted and will include strategies for reducing sedimentation within the NWR as well as managing the reduction of sediment already present. The MPCA is proposing rule changes to change the classification of Thief River to a Class 1C drinking water source.

15. Little Rock Lake, Benton County MN Maggie Leach, MPCA

16. MN Nutrient Reduction Strategy, Justin Watkins, MPCA 16

17. Long-standing attention in city, county plans

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19. Drinking Water in WRAPS: SE MN Example Conditions, Targeting, Strategies 19

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22. Strategies: Nitrogen BMP Tool

23. Questions? www.pca.state.mn.us/water