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).
Usually through pipelines that have been drilled. Some of the locations are on land, but the majority of locations are offshore, deep in the ocean. The gas flows up through a well, and then to the surface of the ground and into pipelines. Natural gas is composed of other gases such as butane, which gets separated and cleaned at a gas processing plant.