The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) is required to publish a list of impaired waters in the state every two years. The draft 2020 list is available here and public comments will be accepted until January 20th, 2020. Public meetings have been scheduled, with one in St. Paul (520 Lafayette Road N, St. Paul, MN 55155) on December 19th, 2019 at 1 pm. The impaired waters can also be viewed with the impaired waters viewer (IWAV) interactive map. This year’s list includes 581 new impairments.

Anoka County water bodies listed in the 2020 impaired waters inventory include:

• Coon Lake
• Linwood Lake
• Martin Lake
• Sunrise River, West Branch
• Typo Lake
• Bald Eagle Lake
• Baldwin Lake
• Cedar Creek
• Centerville Lake
• Clearwater Creek
• Coon Creek
• County Ditch 17
• Crooked Lake
• Crooked Brook
• East Moore Lake
• East Twin Lake
• Lake George
• George Watch Lake
• Golden Lake
• Ham Lake
• Mahoney Brook
• Marshan Lake
• Mississippi River
• Otter Lake
• Peltier Lake
• Reshanau Lake
• Rice Lake
• Rice Creek
• Rum River
• Sand Creek
• Sandy Lake
• Seelye Brook
• Silver Lake
• Trott Brook

For more information on defining impaired waters, click here.