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Clean Water Funds from the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources (BWSR) supported conservation work that significantly contributed to the proposed removal of a section of the Sand Hill River in Polk County from the state’s impaired waters list. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approval finalizes the status. Redhorse species and other migratory fish […]
The Polk County Board of Commissioners met on Tuesday, July 22, at the Government Center in Crookston. April Swenby – Sand Hill River Watershed District April Swenby, Administrator from the Sand Hill River Watershed District, came to the board seeking approval for three 2026 General Tax Levy Petitions and to present their annual report and
The Polk County Commissioners met Tuesday morning at the Polk County Government Center in Crookston. SAND HILL RIVER WATERSHED UPDATE The commissioners heard from April Swenby, the manager of the Sand Hill River Watershed District (SHRWD). Swenby asked the commissioners for approval on three separate petitions for using the taxing authority for 2024. The first
The return of redhorse species to a stretch of the Sand Hill River in Polk County reflects improving trends that could lead to removal from the state’s impaired waters list as early as 2026. “Overall, things are looking much improved in terms of fish passage,” Murphy Steininger, who led the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency monitoring
A public hearing on the draft plan for the Sand Hill River One Watershed, One Plan is scheduled for 11:15 a.m. Monday, November 20th, 2023, at the Sand Hill River Watershed District located at 219 N Mill Street, Fertile, MN. The purpose of this hearing is to present the comments received during the 60-day comment
The Polk County Board of Commissioners met inside the Polk County Government Center on Tuesday morning to hear the annual report from the Sand Hill River Watershed District and a budget option from Polk County Engineer Richard Sanders. SAND HILL RIVER WATERSHED DISTRICT The board was first approached by the Sand Hill River Watershed District
