• Table of Contents:
  • The Table of Contents lists each Section of the Lincoln County Water Management Plan update and the pages in which the specific items start.  Each Section starts over with the page number being "1".
• Preface:
  • Includes a description of Lincoln County, MN;
  • Plan Administration and Role of the Task Force; and
  • Accomplishments: May 20, 1997 to December 31, 2003.
• Executive Summary:
  • Version and Purpose;
  • Description of Priority Concerns;
  • Summary of Goals and Actions and Projected Total Cost;
  • Summary of Consistency/Inconsistency of the Plan with other Plans; and
  • Summary of Recommended Amendments to other Plans/Controls.
• Assessment of the Priority Concerns:
  • Assessment of each of the priority concerns listed above.
• Goals and Objectives:
  • Lists the goad and objectives which are addressed under each of the priority concerns.
• Implementation Program:
  • Lists the implementation program for the priority concerns and also lists the Abbreviations used in this section.
• Implementation: Ongoing Activities Coordinated by the Plan
  • Identifies other activities and programs that make up the local water management program, but are not reflected in the priority concern section;
  • Lincoln County Comprehensive Development Ordinance; and
  • Lincoln County Comprehensive Sustainable Development Plan.
• Appendix: Priority Scoping Document:
  • Initial Priority Concerns;
  • Description of how and why the priority concerns were chosen;
  • Attachment 1: Priority concerns/issues collected from local/state/federal agencies;
  • Attachment 2: Priority concerns/issues collected from state and local input meetings;
  • Attachment 3: Water Plan issue identification meeting for Lincoln County;
  • Attachment 4: Minutes from the Water Plan Update-Public Input Meeting- February 11, 2003;
  • Priority Scoping Document Addendum: December, 2003-priority concerns portion of the scoping document is replaced with this section of priority concerns.

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  Lincoln County Water Management Plan
  Implementation
  - 2007 -

  The Lincoln County Water Management Task force has approved the following implementation items for the 2007 program year:
   

• Well Sealing Program:
  • Available to landowners with land in Lincoln County.
  • 75% cost-share not to exceed $350.00 per well sealed.
  • Landowner must get prior approval from the Lincoln SWCD office before sealing well.
  • Dollars available to seal approximately 30 wells.

  
     Shown is a well being sealed with bentonite by a licensed well contractor.
   

• Conserving Use Acres Program:
  • Provides conserving use acres dollars to six landowners in Lincoln County.
  • Plant small grain in order to install conservation practices during the summer months.
  • Available to landowners constructing conservation practices in the current year.
     
• Rock Inlet Program:
  • Available to landowners with land in Lincoln County.
  • 75% cost-share not to exceed $400.00 per rock inlet installed.
  • Landowner must get prior approval from the Lincoln SWCD office before installing inlet.
  • Dollars limited.

For more information or questions on the Lincoln County Water Management Plan contact: pauline.vanoverbeke@mn.nacdnet.net

For information on the process of Local Water Management Planning go to: http://www.bwsr.state.mn.us/watermgmt/index.html