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).
Columbia Gas is improving the way you are billed. Customers will now be billed for the amount of energy (therms) provided by the natural gas you consume instead of the volume (Ccf) of natural gas consumed. Example: The Company's new method of billing in therms is like counting the blueberries in the pint and charging you for that number of blueberries.