Hawk Creek is a 65 mile stream with a 600,000 acre watershed that enters the Minnesota River near Granite Falls. The watershed is 85 percent agricultural cropland, with over 98 percent of its original wetlands drained. This project promotes the use of best management practices that will result in significant water quality benefits for the watershed. Those BMPs include livestock waste management systems, buffer strips, grassed waterways, nutrient and residue management plans, livestock exclusions, alternative tile intake systems, terraces, sediment retentions and septic system upgrades.