This is an AI-prepared desktop source check for a community question about gardens, watersheds, and rainwater in Duluth. The provider offer request asks for a bounded, reproducible screening before anyone proposes a paid report. No garden organizer has agreed to a site study, and no provider has been selected.
One reproducible map check
The Duluth Community Garden Program's location page embeds a public KML map of garden markers. On 2026-09-28, its Chester Creek Community Garden marker was at longitude -92.0899378, latitude 46.807297. This is a map point supplied by the garden program, not a surveyed garden boundary or confirmation of current site operations.
An intersection query of that point against Minnesota DNR's catchment layer returned one feature: catchment 0204000, named “City of Duluth-Frontal Lake Superior,” with a ver_date value of 10/31/2023. The layer is DNR Watersheds - DNR Level 08 - All Catchments, originated by the Minnesota DNR Division of Ecological and Water Resources, Watershed Delineation Project; its published metadata gives publication date 11/01/2023 and attribution requirements. This locates the program's marker in a mapped broad catchment. It does not show which nearby surface, pipe, or roof drains toward the garden.
What a useful screening still needs
The City has a completed stormwater management plan covering watershed and sewershed characteristics. Its newer GIS service directory lists watershed, elevation, and storm-system folders, but unauthenticated queries to those folders returned Token Required on 2026-09-28. An older City utility map service responded publicly and lists storm-system layers; its currency, completeness, terms, and fitness for this question have not been established. A provider should verify accessible elevation and imagery, garden boundaries, storm infrastructure, local flow paths, and the City's relevant plan findings before interpreting upstream relationships.
A catchment intersection is not a surface-flow model, hydrologic review, water-volume estimate, or permission to redirect runoff. The actual drainage path, utilities, ownership, site conditions, and potential harm require appropriate field and professional review before any intervention is considered.
Evidence and next decision
- Evidence state: conceived question with one reproducible public-data
intersection. No completed garden-scale simulation, human source review, field observation, trial, or witnessed adaptation outcome.
- Work selection: offers are open
for a bounded feasibility slice. That request does not award work or authorize spending.
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