The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA)  has updated their sign-up process and website links for their Volunteer Water Monitoring Program. There are currently four monitoring sites in the Pomme de Terre River Watershed:  a stream off Lake Rose in Otter Tail county, a stream off Lake Barrett in Grant County, and two near the Appleton...Read More

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MNPCA) has finished a Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) and a Watershed Restoration and Production Strategy Report (WRAPS) for the Pomme de Terre Watershed. The WRAPS report brings together 10 years of water quality monitoring, follow-up assessment, stressor identification and planning. The TMDL report calculates the maximum possible total phosphorus, total...Read More

The Pomme de Terre Watershed is moving into the One Watershed, One Plan planning process. During the creation of this ten-year planning document, involvement from a number of various counties, agencies, local units, and landowners is necessary to create a plan that focuses on our community needs, goals, and capacity. To accomplish this the Pomme...Read More

PDTRA and Swift County SWCD are getting things done for the Pomme de Terre Watershed as a result of locally-led planning, fund acquisition, and project work. A dam was constructed on Drywood Creek in 1972 and failed in 1997. This failure left a non-functioning structure pushing the creek around the left and right abutments, resulting...Read More

What a year 2015 has been for the Pomme de Terre River Association (PDTRA). Through funding from the Clean Water, Federal 319, and County Funds the association, in terms of conservation, has had a tremendously successful year. The beginning of the year started out with a bang as we received $387,146.00 from the states Clean...Read More