Heron Lake Watershed District administrator announces sudden retirement Jan Voit leaves the Heron Lake Watershed District after 38 years, citing a board of managers who don't support conservation and a county who wants to take over drainage authority. 5:00 am, Feb. 20, 2021 × Voit HERON LAKE — The Heron Lake Watershed District is without an administrator and watershed technician following a retirement and resignation announced within days of each other. Jan Voit, who worked for the watershed for 38 years — much of that time as its administrator — sent a letter Feb. 1 to each of the five watershed managers announcing her retirement. Her last day of employment with the district was Feb. 15. Meanwhile, watershed technician Catherine Wegehaupt tendered her resignation with an effective date of Feb. 23.