The Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources adopted policies that establish a boundary framework and set minimum procedural and plan content requirements for developing comprehensive watershed management plans through its One Watershed, One Plan program. These policies are consistent with Minnesota Statutes §103B.801 and based on the One Watershed, One Plan Guiding Principles adopted by BWSR on December 18, 2013.

Operating Procedures

Operating Procedures version 2.1 (pdf) Adopted March 24, 2021.  Applies to plans started after March 24, 2021

Operating Procedures version 2.0 (pdf) Adopted March 28, 2018.  Applies to plans started after March 28, 2018.

Operating Procedures version 1.0 (pdf)

Plan Content Requirements

Plan Content Requirements version 2.2 (pdf) Adopted December 15, 2022. Applies to plans started after December 15, 2022.

Plan Content Requirements version 2.1(pdf) Adopted August 29, 2019.  Applies to plans started after August 29, 2019.

Plan Content Requirements version 2.0 (pdf) Adopted March 28, 2018.  Applies to plans started after March 28, 2018.

Plan Content Requirements version 1.0 (pdf)

Boundary Framework

Boundary map, poster size (pdf)

Labeled with boundary numbers - February 2021 (pdf)

Geodatabase with boundary layer shapefile

Guiding Principles

Guiding Principles (pdf)