Category: Monitoring

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October 25, 2023

Emily Resseger Joins MWMO as Monitoring, Assessment, and Research Program Manager

(PDF Version) MINNEAPOLIS — The Mississippi Water Management Organization (MWMO) is pleased to announce that Emily Resseger has been selected as the MWMO’s new Monitoring, Assessment, and Research...

The downtown Minneapolis skyline, as seen from the Stone Arch Bridge. (Credit: Nick Busse)

Using Science and Engineering to Clean Up Downtown Minneapolis’ Dirty Stormwater Runoff

It’s spring, one of our dirtiest times of year in the stormwater management world. It’s the time when all that trash and pollution that gathered on the landscape and got […]
April 10, 2019
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A MnDOT snow plow. (Credit: Minnesota Pollution Control Agency)

Three graphs that show how melting snow carries chloride into our waterbodies

March is here, which means snow-melt, more snow and (hopefully soon) more snow-melt. Last week, with the warmer temperatures during the day, you probably noticed the snow piles in your […]
March 8, 2018
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Project partners at Hall's Island.

Great partnerships made 2017 a successful year for the MWMO

As we consider our accomplishments over the past year, it’s always tempting to think in terms of numbers: how many big projects were completed, how many ribbon-cuttings or ground-breakings were […]
December 28, 2017
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City of Minneapolis erosion monitoring interns driving to a construction site.

In Minneapolis, interns patrol the streets for signs of pollution

Preventing pollution isn’t easy in a city as large and highly developed as Minneapolis. The city has 28,000 storm drains, and each one provides a pathway for pollutants to travel […]
September 19, 2017
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MWMO monitoring team members boating across the Mississippi River to the next sampling site.

In Photos: Monitoring Water Quality with the MWMO

By Dayna Ball, Communications Intern The MWMO monitoring team works throughout the year — through rain, heat and freezing Minnesota winters — to work toward improving water quality in the watershed. […]
June 8, 2017
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MWMO monitoring team members scout for erosion along the Nicollet Island shoreline.

How We Monitor Water Quality at the MWMO

Here at the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization, one of the most common questions we’re asked is, “How’s the water quality in the Mississippi River?” It’s an important question, and one […]
June 17, 2016
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MWMO staff conducting bathymetric mapping in 2016.

Mapping the Changing Ecology of the Mississippi River

The closure of the Upper St. Anthony Falls Lock and Dam in June 2015 marked the end of an era for the Mississippi River — and the beginning of a […]
March 5, 2016
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