Comprehensive Planning

Tischer Creek through Congdon Park

Tischer Creek Watershed Roadmap to Resilience

  • Client: MN DNR

  • Contracted with GEI

  • Funding: EPA GLRI

  • Develop a watershed plan utilizing the EPA’s 9-Elements to Watershed Planning and the In-stream Flow Council’s Five Watershed Components.

  • This watershed approach combines stormwater and surface water projects into the same plan.

  • Collate all relative existing documentation, including data, management strategies, and project lists.

  • Use source and stressor conceptual models to develop project goals, objectives, and strategies.

  • The Roadmap has been developed for efficient and effective reproducibility for other watersheds.

Culvert Assessment on the Manitou River, Cook County, MN

Watershed-wide Connectivity Assessment

  • Client: Minnesota Trout Unlimited

  • Contracted with Beaver River Consulting

  • Assess longitudinal connectivity throughout the Manitou River Watershed (HUC12) and tributaries (HUC10).

  • The mapping component reviewed the sub-watershed area, land cover, LiDAR/topography, historical aerial imagery, stream pattern, and beaver tendencies.

  • Physical assessments included culvert condition, size, and elevation. Stream bankfull dimensions and channel slope are also characterized for design development.

  • Three culverts identified in this assessment have been designed and will be constructed summer of 2023.