Lake Elmo, located in the Twin Cities metropolitan area of Minnesota, is a municipality with a population of just over 8,000. Regional sewer was not
The city of Eagan is working as a community to ensure the quality of the city’s surface watershed resources. A continued concern of homeowners, collectively,
Wilderness Inquiry, a Minneapolis-based nonprofit that travels the country with its Canoemobile is a collaboration of federal, state, and local partners connecting urban youth to
Minnesota’s water has come a long way from the days when raw sewage flowed untreated into rivers as a matter of course. However, there is
In Minnesota there are some guidelines and advisories that remain, year after year, as a rule of thumb for keeping safe when bodies of water
Road salt poses one of the larger threats to water quality during the winter. Salt splashed from the road kills nearby vegetation and can leave
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) has developed a watershed monitoring strategy which uses an effective and efficient integration of agency and local monitoring programs
The Minneapolis and St. Paul Metropolitan region has put in place a plan to better the community and future residents for years to come. The
In an era of increasingly sophisticated technology, two treatment plants on the Mississippi River are experimenting with what might be the original water-quality gauge: mussels.
Flow equalization is basically storing wastewater generated over a period of time to spread the flow out more evenly for a day or week. It
