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 Minnesota Environmental Quality Board.
Water program
Overview
The Environmental Quality Board is charged with coordinating
state water resource management activities. It is responsible for developing
the state water plan, a state water monitoring plan, biennial water policy and
priorities reports, and biennial reports on trends in water quality and availability
and research needs.
Several agencies play a role in managing Minnesota’s
water resources and, as a result, a single water issue often involves a number
of agencies. Because of this, the Governor established a Clean
Water Cabinet and much of the EQB’s coordination and planning
work is completed through the Cabinet. A management level water resources leadership
group aids the Cabinet and Board in carrying out these duties.
Ongoing projects and studies- 8
- Minnesota River integrated watershed, water quality and ecosystem restoration study: The Environmental Quality Board co-chairs this federal – state study to provide the river community with new tools for understanding how local water and land use choices affect the basin. (Project record)
- State water plan: The Environmental Quality Board is charged with initiating, coordinating, and developing a comprehensive long-range water resources planning report, to be completed every 10 years. (Project record)
- Interagency water monitoring technical workgroup : An interagency group of water monitoring technical experts meets on a regular basis to ensure efficiency and interagency coordination. (Project record)
- Groundwater technical workgroup: DNR led a team of expert hydrologists to evaluate tools for sustainability. (Project record)
- Water availability project: Enviromental Quality Board sets course for water sustainability. (Project record)
- Clean Water Cabinet: The Environmental Quality Board worked with and through Clean Water Cabinet to accomplish its water mission. (Project record)
- Biennial water priorities report: Minnesota Statutes directs the Environmental Quality Board to coordinate state water programs and develop a biennial water policy and priorities report. (Project record)
- Water sustainability assessment: This assessment is used to create a framework for understanding potential constraints to future development through the routine estimation of water demand and its comparison to known supplies. (Project record)
Recent public comments
Completed projects and studies
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- 2010 Minnesota Water Plan: A ten year framework for managing Minnesota's water, November 29, 2010. (15.5M, PDF) | Report details
- Managing for water sustainability: report of the EQB Water Availability project: Calls for important new steps to protect the state’s water supplies, December 11, 2008. (1.1 M, PDF) | Report details
- Protecting Minnesota's waters: priorities for the 2008-2009 biennium: Presents the combined work of the Environmental Quality Board and the Clean Water Cabinet in defining state water priorities for the current biennium, May 7, 2007. (594.1K, .pdf) | Report details
- Use of Minnesota's renewable water resources: Moving toward sustainability: Biennial state assessment of the availability of water to meet the state's long range needs, April 4, 2007. (506.16K, .pdf) | Report details
- Water basin reports : Basin teams worked from October 1999 through February 2002 and completed a number of reports, October 18, 2005.
- JOBZ and the environment: Presents possible water limitations within various JOBZ zones, September 28, 2005. (2p., 171K, PDF) | Report details
- Minnesota water priorities 2003-2005: a biennial report of the Environmental Quality Board: Establishes water policy goals, March 27, 2003. (21 p., 4.78 M, PDF 5.0) | Report details
Full program document list
Staff contact information
Environmental Quality Board, 520 Lafayette Road North, Saint Paul, MN 55155
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