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Capitol Region Watershed District Rules Adopted XX/XXJ2006 General Policy Statement The Capitol Region Watershed District (District) is a political subdivision of the State of Minnesota, established under the Minnesota Watershed Law. The District is also a watershed management organization as defined under the Minnesota Metropolitan Surface Water Management Act, and is subject to the directives and authorizations in that Act. Under the Watershed Law and the Metropolitan Surface Water Management Act, the District exercises a series of powers to accomplish its statutory purposes. The District's general statutory purpose is to conserve natural resources through development planning, flood control, and other conservation projects, based upon sound scientific principles. As required under the Metropolitan Surface Water Management Act, the District has adopted a Watershed Management Plan, which conta' the framework and guiding principles for the District in carrying out its statuto oses. It is the District's intent to implement the Plan's goals and policies in these f surface water runoff which face water systems within the urbanized. Land alteration affects the rate, volume, and i ultimately must be accommodated by the existin District. The watershed is 40.6 square mi Land alteration and urbanization ha entering the waterbodies of the D' 'ct from ongoing erosion processes c capacity of water bodies and d e in all of the lakes and other ater River is the principle rece wat EP A as "impaired" for nutrie District, is also listed as impaire . continue to degrade the quality of runoff e to n-point source pollution. Sedimentation on activities can reduce the hydraulic er quality. Water quality problems already exist s of throughout the District. The Mississippi or all runoff from the District and is listed by the o Lake, a high priority water resource of the Projects that do not address the increased rate or volume of stormwater runoff from urban development can aggravate existing flooding problems and contribute to new ones. Projects that do not address the quality of runoff can aggravate existing water quality problems and contribute to new ones. Projects which fill floodplain or wetland areas without compensatory storage can aggravate existing flooding by reducing flood storage and hydraulic capacity of waterbodies, and can degrade water quality by eliminating the filtering capacity of those areas. In these rules the District seeks to protect the public health and welfare and the natural resources of the District by providing reasonable regulation of the District's lands and waters to reduce the severity and frequency of flooding and high water, to preserve floodplain and wetland storage capacity, to improve the chemical, physical and biological quality of surface water, to reduce sedimentation, to preserve waterbodies' hydraulic and navigational capacity, to preserve natural wetland and shoreland features, and to 06/12/2006 CRWD DRAFT