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).
National Gas & Oil Cooperative (National) National Gas & Oil Cooperative provides natural gas service to more than 33,000 residential and commercial members within a six county area. This service is provided through a network of nearly 1,000 miles of distribution pipelines. We are committed to providing our members with safe and reliable natural gas service.