Programs
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Feedlot Program
Per the 2009 Minnesota Session Law, Chapter 37, counties that receive funding from the legislation to implement the state’s feedlot regulations shall post a report of its feedlot program results and financial expenditures.
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Septic Program
The Environmental Services Department oversees the siting, design, installation, alteration, operation, maintenance, monitoring, and management of all septic systems within the County’s applicable jurisdiction.
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Solid Waste Program
As part of Tri-County Solid Waste Joint Powers Board (Le Sueur, Nicollet, and Sibley Counties), the Board is required to prepare a ten-year solid waste plan.
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Watershed Management
The State of Minnesota requires every county to adopt a local water management plan. The plan addresses land use decisions across the county that will help with local goals and priorities to improve and protect surface and groundwater resources. In 2015, the State of Minnesota proposed a new approach to watershed management referred to as One Watershed One Plan. 1W1P has multiple government units working together to develop a water management plan based off of a major watershed boundary. The idea is that water does not stop at county lines, and working on a major watershed scale should be more effective in improving, restoring, and protecting our resources. Le Sueur County has four major watersheds: Cannon River, Middle Minnesota, Lower Minnesota, and Le Sueur.
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Aquatic Invasive Species
Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) are organisms that have been introduced into ecosystems that are not originally within their natural range. They often cause harm to their nonnative ecosystems as well as impact human uses that depend on these environments.
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Shoreland
Shoreland management is an important tool for state and local governments as well as lakeshore owners in order to guide land use decisions along rivers, lakes, and streams that will protect these sensitive habitats and also water quality. Without shoreland management, natural resources that are highly valued by Minnesotans will decline in quality.