The Minnehaha Creek Watershed District (MCWD) has updated its rules, including Rule F: Shoreline Protection. To better promote water quality within the MCWD, this rule will promote natural landscaping and stabilization along shorelines to a greater degree than the previous rule. The Lake Minnetonka Shoreline Restoration Project complements this change by classifying the shoreline around the lake according to its likelihood to erode, and by creating five demonstration sites of natural stabilization (bioengineering) to show homeowners and contractors how to work with a variety of shoreline conditions. The first demonstration site was completed in 2005 at the headwaters of Minnehaha Creek at Grays Bay. The remaining four sites were stabilized during the summer of 2009.