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RECD ~4AR 1 3 1997 !t'l17 ter Soil rCes In this issue BWSR page 10 Information management, SWCD election changes, agency voting rights, ability to accept grants D1~1R page 11 General permits for county projects, PWI maps, general permits for water apporpriations PCA page 12 ISTS MDH page 13 SDWA, well management, plumbing, health risk limits MN Plan page 15 Wastewater needs, Crosscurrents The Water Bi1lBoard is an interagency information source for current environmental legisla- tion. It is published twice a year by the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources. March 1997 Vol. 9, no. 1 From all a encies Interagency water iiiatve ro ose The environmental cluster agen- cies have banded together to support a number of interagency environmental initiatives this legislative session. The cluster agencies are: • the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources (BWSR) • the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) • the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) ® the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA); and • the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA). Good water monitoring provides the foundation for protecting Minnesota's invaluable water resources. Done well, water monitoring provides us with the basic information needed to identify, evaluate, and then solve our water resource problems. Carefully thought-out and implemented, the data provided by water monitoring acts as an essential guide, allowing us to make considered decisions as to the most effective direction for our actions. In a time of limited financial resources, it is an essential tool for ensuring that available dollars are targeted where they will do the most good. The 1992 Minnesota Water Monitoring Plan, an interagency effort coordinated by the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board, reaffirmed the vital. role of good water monitoring. The plan examinedthen-current efforts and appropriate roles of the different agencies, identified needed improvements, and set out a framework for building a strong, coordinated, and comprehensive program for monitoring the state's waters. This 1997 interagency initiative builds on that plan. Since 1992, state agencies have made significant improvements in what they monitor. Likewise, we have changed how we monitor, in order to make monitoring more cost-effective and provide more useable results to state and local decision-makers.