In 2010, MCWD completed a study that identified opportunities to restore a large wetland south of Highway 5 in the City of Victoria.

In 2009, MCWD completed a study that identified opportunities to improve water quality draining into Gleason Lake by installing stormwater facilities to capture stormwater runoff near County Road 6 and Dunkirk Lane in Plymouth. This project has been coupled with opportunities to enhance the vegetative diversity of a large wetland complex south of Highway 55 and east of Vicksburg Lane, in addition to a streambank stabilization project planned in the Chelsea Woods/Mews neighborhoods north of 18th Avenue.

These projects are planned to be designed and constructed in 2011 in coordination with the City of Plymouth and are anticipated to reduce loading to Gleason Lake by approximately 60 lbs each year.

In 2010, MCWD completed a study examining opportunities to enhance in-stream habitat and improve bank stability on Reach 20 of Minnehaha Creek.  Reach 20 is located between Bloomington Avenue and the outlet of Lake Nokomis in the City of Minneapolis on Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board property.

MCWD is currently studying opportunities to enhance Reach 20 of Minnehaha Creek, located between Louisiana Avenue and the Cedar Regional Trail, in the City of St. Louis Park.  Following the success of the 2005 Methodist Hospital remeander, the District is exploring the potential to expand this concept upstream by reconnecting Reach 20 with its historic floodplain and sections of its old alignment, prior to it being ditched in the 1950's.