Aitkin
County Environmental Services
Planning &
Zoning
209 Second Street , NW
Aitkin, Minnesota
56431
Remember that
protecting our valuable resources is everyone’s
responsibility.
Before starting your building and landscaping projects,
Check first that Permits are required
for any land development in Aitkin County.
·
With increased pressures on
lake, river, and shoreland resources, statewide management standards that had
been in effect for over two decades were no longer adequate to provide resource
protection. New management standards have now been adopted by all Minnesota
Counties, including Aitkin County on January 21, 1992.
·
Clean Lakes safe drinking
water and a healthy economy are tied together and can only be assured for the
future if all citizens join together to prevent degradation of ground and
surface water.
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Examples of projects which
require a permit including the following:
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Construction or remodeling
buildings
§
Mobile homes
§
Travel Trailers used for
sleeping accommodations that remain on property for greater that 180
days.
§
Filling or excavating in the
shoreland
§
Cutting trees and brush
in a shoreland
§
Alteration of a
wetland
§
Installation of septic
systems
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Mining, including sand &
gravel pits
§
Alteration of a lake
bed
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Use of chemical to control
aquatic plants
§
Cutting emergent aquatic
vegetation (bulrush, cattails, ect..)
·
Restoration of landscapes
which have been improperly altered with out either permits or meeting standards
can be costly
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Don’t hesitate to call
first:
1.
Call the Aitkin County
Planning & Zoning Office If you are planning to develop any property in
the entire county or if you are planning to make alterations in vegetation or to
excavate in the shoreland (within 1,000 feet of the ordinary high water of a
lake or 300 feet of a river) to find out what must be done initiation of
projects. Phone – (218)
927-7342
2.
Call the Aitkin County Soil and Water
Conservation District (SWCD) for
advice on controlling erosion problems, on best management practices in tree
removal or on precautions to take in excavating and filling.Phone – (218)
927-6565
3.
Call Aitkin County
Enviromental Services for water
testing, recycling, lead abatement, radon, and for solving problems of hazardous
waste disposal Phone (218)
927-7250
4.
Call the Department of
Natural Resources (DNR) before doing any alteration in the bed of public
waters and for aquatic vegetation control. Phone (218)
828-2636
