Anoka County communities have established water resource management programs with their watershed management organization or a watershed district. The City’s surface water management programs deal with broad land runoff (“nonpoint” source) and specific wastewater (“point” source) pollution. Point source pollution includes the discharge of treated wastewater effluent through a pipe. Nonpoint sources of pollution result from many of the everyday activities and actions of people. These include applying fertilizer to lawns in an amount that exceeds what the grass can use, plowing an agricultural field such that erosion results, blowing grass clippings into the street, or driving a car that exhausts improperly burned hydrocarbons or leaks oil. All these add up to major nonpoint source pollution loading of our receiving waters.

Wellhead Protection programs are a City’s means to address groundwater pollution near water wells that can contaminate the source of the community’s drinking water supply.  Our water resources are an important part of our lives and your city is taking measures to ensure that we have clean and plentiful water now and in the future.

For information about how your community is addressing the management and protection of local water resources see their website, plans, or contact the city clerk for more information:

• ANOKA COUNTY: Water Resources Management Report (Executive Summary) – Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan – Solid Waste Management Plan
• ANDOVER: Water Resources Management Plan – Wellhead Protection
• ANOKA: Stormwater Management Plan – Wellhead Protection
• BETHEL: Comprehensive Plan
• BLAINE: Surface Water Management Plan – Wellhead Protection – Watershed Watchers
• CENTERVILLE: Stormwater Management Program – Wellhead Protection
• CIRCLE PINES: Stormwater Pollution Prevention Program – Centennial Utilities – Wellhead Protection
• COLUMBIA HEIGHTS: Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan – website
• COLUMBUS: Comprehensive Plan (pg. 34-37) and Wetland Protection Plan
• COON RAPIDS: Water Resources Plan – Stormwater Pollution Prevention – Wellhead Protection
• EAST BETHEL: Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan – website
• FRIDLEY: Comprehensive Plan Natural Resources Management – Public Water Supply Plan – Surface Water Management and Wellhead Protection Plan
• HAM LAKE: Stormwater Pollution Prevention / Water Management Plan
• HILLTOP: Comprehensive Plan
• LEXINGTON: Comprehensive Plan (Water Resources, pg. 31-34) – Wellhead Protection
• LINO LAKES: Comprehensive Plan Resource Management System Plan – Water Supply Plan –  Stormwater Pollution Prevention – Wellhead Protection
• LINWOOD: Comprehensive Plan
• NOWTHEN: Water Management Plan – Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan
• OAK GROVE: Comprehensive Plan – Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan
• RAMSEY: Surface Water Management Plan – Wellhead Protection
• ST. FRANCIS: Water Resources Management – Surface Water Management – Wellhead Protection
• SPRING LAKE PARK: Surface Water Management Plan  & Wellhead Protection Plan