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Minnesota's Water Quality Monitoring Strategy

Minnesota’s Water Quality Monitoring Strategy describes a 10-year plan for surface and ground water monitoring. The plan includes information on all types of monitoring — condition monitoring, problem investigation monitoring and effectiveness monitoring — along with a timeline for implementation. Under the plan, Minnesota will completely assess its lakes and streams on a 10-year cycle and will re-establish its ground water monitoring network in cooperation with the Minnesota Departments of Agriculture and Health.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requires states to complete the strategy, and Minnesota’s strategy was accepted by EPA in September 2004.

Read the details of the plan below.

• Minnesota's Water Quality Monitoring Strategy — A Report Prepared for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, August 2004

Report Appendices

• Impaired Waters Stakeholder Process Policy Framework
• Volunteer Surface Water Monitoring Guide
• 2003 Annual Report to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Clean Water Act Section 319 and Clean Water Partnership Projects in Minnesota
• An Evaluation of Citizen Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring in Minnesota
• MPCA Quality Management Plan
• Guidance Manual for Assessing the Quality of Minnesota Surface Water
• Environmental Data Access Initiative
• Monitoring Evaluation Report
• Monitoring Evaluation Status Update