Resource of the Month: Lake Pepin Legacy Alliance Local Resource Management Scorecard

The scorecard, which is now available on the LPLA website, has two major components: the strategic use and presentation of existing federal, state, and local data, in coordination with more anecdotal accounts of projects in each county. Calculating basic statistics has allowed for a comparison of individual counties against the aggregate average across the Minnesota River Basin.

Understanding the local conditions in each county is a necessary step in addressing the water quality problems of the Minnesota River and Lake Pepin. The Local Resource Management Scorecard provides information in an accessible format for all interested parties and aims to give credit and provide accountability to the counties whose water drains into the Minnesota River and whose soil is settling in Lake Pepin.

For a more detailed overview of the project, including comments from county commissioners and a guide to using this web tool, watch LPLAs video.