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The Water Supply Considerations map illustrates some key content for your community, <br />including Drinking Water Supply Management Areas, Special Well and Boring Construction <br />Areas, and Priority Waters qualifying as drinking water sources. <br />We strongly encourage you to include any required information that isn’t in the local water <br />supply plan—such as source water protection and privately-owned wells—in a water chapter of <br />your comprehensive plan. <br />A customized checklist of minimum requirements for your community is included in the Local <br />Planning Handbook, along with resources to help you meet and go beyond minimum <br />requirements. <br />Source Water Protection <br />Your comprehensive plan should consider water use (including water supply sources) as part <br />of land use planning, to promote land use practices and development decisions that protect <br />public health for your community and the region. Include information about the location of both <br />groundwater and surface water source water protection areas and their vulnerability for all <br />community public drinking water source(s) within your community’s borders and associated <br />contaminant threats. Also include a commitment to collaborate with neighbors on source water <br />protection, when applicable. <br />Privately-Owned Wells and Nonmunicipal Public Water Supply Systems <br />Your comprehensive plan should include information about the current and planned use and <br />management strategies for privately-owned wells and nonmunicipal public water supply <br />systems, because people, institutions, and businesses in your community use those sources <br />for a wide range of agricultural, residential, commercial, industrial and/or other nonmunicipal <br />purposes. <br />If a new municipal community public water supply system is planned by 2050, a water chapter <br />of the updated comprehensive plan should include details about the planned system. <br />Municipal Community Public Water Supply Systems <br />Water Supply System Information <br />Because people, institutions, and businesses in your community get water through a municipal <br />community public water supply system, you must include information about that system and an <br />implementation program in your comprehensive plans, to demonstrate the availability of clean, <br />safe drinking water to meet projected water demand consistent with the Met Council’s <br />forecasts. <br />The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR)-approved local water supply plan for <br />the municipal public water supplier providing service to your community must be attached as <br />an appendix to the comprehensive plan. To ensure that the DNR-approved local water supply <br />plan is consistent with regional policies and is compatible with adjacent and affected <br />governmental units, you should provide the Met Council and adjacent and affected jurisdictions <br />with the opportunity to review and comment on your draft local water supply plan update. <br />2025 SYSTEM STATEMENT WATER RESOURCES 27