The Minnehaha Creek Watershed District compiles water quality monitoring data for lakes and streams in an annual monitoring report. The information and data used to calculate water quality lake grades are included in the yearly report. The official title of MCWD’s monitoring reports is the Annual Hydrological Monitoring Report.

The Minnehaha Creek Watershed District (MCWD) maintains and operates tipping bucket precipitation gauging stations at seven locations throughout the watershed district. In addition, there are three citizen precipitation recorders who record data. The precipitation data are published in our annual Hydrological Data Report and will be available in the MCWD Water Quality Database.