Agenda - Council Work Session - 02/23/2021

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6115.0670 MINNESOTA RULES 92 (1) the location and nature of the area involved and the type of appropriation and its impact on the availability, distribution, and condition of water and related land resources in the area involved; (2) the hydrology and hydraulics of the water resources involved and the capability of the resources to sustain the proposed appropriation based on existing and probable future use; (3) the probable effects on the environment including anticipated changes in the resources, unavoidable detrimental effects, and alternatives to the proposed appropriation; (4) the relationship, consistency, and compliance with existing federal, state, and local laws, rules, legal requirements, and water management plans; (5) the public health, safety, and welfare served or impacted by the proposed appropriation; (6) the quantity, quality, and timing of any waters returned after use and the impact on the receiving waters involved; (7) the efficiency of use and intended application of water conservation practices; (8) the comments of local and regional units of government, federal and state agencies, private persons, and other affected or interested parties; (9) the adequacy of state water resources availability when diversions of any waters of the state to any place outside of the state are proposed; (10) the economic benefits of the proposed appropriation based on supporting data when supplied by the applicant. B. The commissioner shall further consider the following factors for appropriation from watercourses: (1) historic streamflow records, and where streamflow records are not available, estimates based on available information on the watershed, climatic factors, runoff, and other pertinent data; (2) physical characteristics such as discharge, depth, and temperature, and an analysis of the hydrologic characteristics of the watershed; (3) aquatic system of the watercourse, riparian vegetation, and existing fish and wildlife management within the watercourse; (4) frequency of occurrence of high and low flows; (5) feasibility and practicability of off -stream storage of high flows for use in providing water supply during periods of normal low flows, when supply is limited by existing and anticipated use. basins: C. The commissioner shall further consider the following factors for appropriation from Copyright © 2019 by the Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota. All Rights Reserved.