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DNR making progress on finalizing Buffer Map

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The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is making progress on finalizing the Buffer Protection Map.

DNR public waters hydrologist John Gleason says following the map’s initial release in July and subsequent update last month, more than 3,400 comments were submitted for review.

“Even though it sounds like a lot of comments, most of them involve a small geographic area.  It’s really only a small percentage of the total miles of water courses and ditches, or lakes and wetlands.”

The DNR accepted over 2,000 change requests and plans to release another revision in January.

“So that process is continuing where SWCD’s on behalf of landowners and drainage authorities are submitting comments and we’re reviewing and updating the map as appropriate.”

The map is intended to help landowners locate waters that require buffers, based on Minnesota’s Buffer Law.

Brownfield spoke to Gleason at the Minnesota Association of Soil and Water Conservation District trade show in Minneapolis earlier this week.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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