Watershed at a Glance. The Cannon River watershed is located south of the Twin Cities and encompasses areas of Dakota, Goodhue, Le Sueur, Steele, Rice and Waseca counties. The watershed drains approximately 1,460 square miles through two main channels, the Cannon and Straight Rivers, to the Mississippi at Red Wing.
While some large industrial, commercial, and electric generation customers receive natural gas directly from high capacity interstate and intrastate pipelines (usually contracted through natural gas marketing companies), most other users receive natural gas from their local gas utility, also called a local distribution company (LDC).
Form No. 3395 07/15. NorthWesternEnergy.com. Natural gas supplies nearly one-fourth of all the energy. used in the United States. Every day, millions of cubic feet. of natural gas moves through a delivery system made. up of close to 2.4 million miles of underground pipelines, bringing energy to 66 million households. According to.