The MFCRWD statutory purposes are to protect water quantity and quality within the watershed. As required by Minnesota Statute Chapter 103D, the MFCRWD has adopted a watershed management plan. The watershed management plan identifies certain issues that are central to the District’s overarching purposes. These issues include: protecting and improving surface water quality, protecting groundwater quality, maintaining adequate surface and groundwater supplies for all users, protecting and restoring critical areas, promoting respectable land use management, expanding knowledge and understanding of the watershed, engaging residents in water resource management, providing effective and efficient administration of the District.

The MFCRWD has enacted the following Administrative Rules to carry out the purposes for which the District was created under Minnesota Statutes Chapter 103D and to implement the policies of the Board of Managers.